湖北省大冶市第一中学2024-2024学年高二英语下学期期中（5月月考）试
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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，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 did the man buy?
A. A camera. B. A magazine. C. A computer. 2. What does the woman do at weekends?
A. Go horse riding. B. Collect the eggs. C. Sell the eggs. 3. Where is the man's MP4 player?
A. In the library. B. In the kitchen. C. In the car. 4. What are the speakers talking about?
A. What to take. B. Where to go. C. When to leave. 5. When will the program finish? A. At 5:30. B. At 6:45.C. At 6:00.
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。 请听第6段材料，回答第6、 7题。 6. When does the man want to be back?
A. At the end of March. B. In the middle of December. C. At the beginning of April. 7. What will the woman do for the man?
A. Call a taxi. B. Buy a subway ticket. C. Drive him to the airport. 请听第7段材料，回答第8、 9题。
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8. How many times does the woman probably practice this week? A. Four times. B. Three times. C. Twice. 9. What does the woman plan to do this Sunday?
A. Attend a competition. B. Sign up for a race. C. Have a rest. 请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. How did the woman feel when she was at the summer camp? A. Homesick. B. Enjoyable. C. Lonely.
11. What sport could the woman do before the summer camp? A. Swimming. B. Volleyball. C. Tennis.
12. What did the man enjoy doing at the summer camp? A. Singing. B. Playing the guitar. C. Playing the piano. 请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What won't the man pick up?
A. A birthday cake. B. Some balloons. C. Some candles. 14. Where will the man go first?
A. Children's Café. B. The supermarket. C. The grocery store. 15. What will the man do at the party?
A. Collect the gifts. B. Play games with kids. C. Give the kids some toys. 16. What does the woman mean at the end of the conversation? A. It's hard to organize a party. B. It will be a mess after the party. C. It will be noisy during the party. 请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where can people consult the dictionary? A. On the right of the librarian's desk. B. On the left of the librarian's desk. C. Opposite the librarian's desk.
18. What is just beyond the librarian's desk?
A. The journal area. B. The study area. C. The main library area. 19.What is going to be introduced later?
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A. Storybooks. B. History books. C. Guidebooks. 20. Which collection is not in this building?
A. The video collection. B. The collection of picture books. C. The art collection. 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）
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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A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced to waist-high rains, smelly and dirty.
Before the trip, I’d had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate. “You from New Orleans?” she asked. I said I was, “No charge.” She said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing happened.
As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage(抵押贷款) on our ruined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We’d began to accept that we’d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kemmedy in California. He’d read some pieces I’d written about our sufferings for state, the online magazine and wanted to give us (“no conditions attached”) a new house across the lake from New Orleans. It sounded a good to her return, but I replied, thinking him for his exceptional generosity, then we to go back. Then the University of Florida offered to let him house to me. While he want to England on his one year, paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet’s offer to James Kemdedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months.
Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity. It’s almost worth losing you wordy possessions to be reminded that people really when given had a channel. 21. What do we know about James Kemnedy?
A. He was a writer of an online magazine
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B. He offered the author a new house free of charge. C. He was a poet at the University of Florida. D. He learned about the author’s sufferings. 22. It can be inferred from the text that .
A. houses were difficult to find in the hurricane stricken area B. rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster C. the author’s family was in financial difficulty
D. the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank 23. Which would be the best title for the text?
A. Terrible Hurricane Katrina but comfortable life on our own. B. The Importance of Helping Others in reward.
C. Life and study free of rent in Florida,feeling grateful. D. Hurricane Is Heartless While Strangers Are Kind. B
In recent decades, countries around the world have made great progress against malaria. However, a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) says that progress is at risk.
This WHO annual report looks at the global fight against the disease. It says that malaria cases are on the rise in several countries.
Many countries are moving toward eliminating malaria, among them Madagascar, Senegal and Zimbabwe.However, the WHO report warns that in others, progress has stalled.
Malaria cases increased by more than 20 percent from 2015 to 2016 in eight African countries - including Rwanda, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
At the same time, funding for malaria prevention and treatment has leveled off, reaching $2.7 billion in 2016. This amount is less than half of the 2024 target.
Professor David Conway is from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He says money for fighting malaria has plateaued, meaning it has not increased in a long time.
Overall, Africa continues to suffer the most from malaria. In 2016, just over 400,000 people died from the disease. This is slightly less than in 2015. However, in Africa the malaria parasite does not yet appear to be developing drug resistance.
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The same cannot be said for Southeast Asia.
Conway explains that there are renewed concerns that in Southeast Asia malaria will become drug-resistant in the future.
The WHO is calling for improving the coverage of existing methods of malaria prevention as well as an urgent investment in new tools -- namely a malaria vaccine.
Professor Conway said, \research is needed to develop an effective malaria vaccine that could cover the populations that at the moment have high malaria rates and that perhaps don't use the available interventions even when they are being funded.\
Several malaria vaccines are under development. Starting in 2024, the WHO is planning a major trial of the RTSS vaccine in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi.
But this latest report from the WHO warns that the world is at a crossroads. Without better funding and more effective tools to fight malaria, the progress made in recent decades could be undone.
24.Which of the following statements is not true?
A. A bit more than 400,000 people died from malaria in African countries. B. More and more money has been put in malaria prevention and treatment. C. Fewer and fewer people are suffering from malaria in the past decade.
D. Malaria cases decreased less than 20 percent in eight African countries in 2016. 25. What does the word “they” in Paragraph 3 from the bottom mean?
A. malaria B. the available interventions C. the populations D. malaria rates
26. Why does the WHO show the worry about the battle of anti-malaria nowadays?
A. Progress of fighting malaria is greatly short of money and effective tools B. More and more people cannot get treatment for malaria in time.
C. No countries are likely to have got funding and effective tools from the WHO. D. Some malaria sufferers in Africa have refused to get treatments from the WHO.
C
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湖北省大冶市第一中学2024_2024学年高二英语下学期期中(5月月考)试题
