湖北省十堰市郧阳中学等四校联考2022-2023学年高二下学期5月联考英语试

湖北省十堰市郧阳中学等四校联考2022-2023学年高二下学期5月联

考英语试卷（含听力）

学校：___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、听力题

1、How will the speakers go to the museum?

A. On foot. B. By bus. C. By taxi.

2、What color is the man’s bag?

A. White. B. Brown. C. Yellow.

3、Where is the woman from?

A. Germany. B. New Zealand. C. England.

4、Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In the classroom. B. At a bus stop. C. At a restaurant.

5、Why does the man want to leave his present job?

A. He finds his present job boring.

B. He wants to open his own company.

C. He hasn’t been given a higher position.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

6、Where does the man probably work?

A. In a hospital. B. In a hotel. C. In a nursing home.

7、How does the man like his job?

A. It’s profitable. B. It’s enjoyable. C. It’s comfortable.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

8、What does Carol look like?

A. She is tall and strong.

C. She is not tall but slim.

9、Which of the following does the woman like?

A. Making coffee. B. Watching movies. C. Dancing.

B. She wears brown hair.

10、What can we know about the woman and her Australian friend?

A. They share several hobbies.

C. They got together this morning.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

11、What rooms do they have?

B. They like staying indoors.

A. Rooms with one bed.

C. Rooms with a mountain view.

12、Where can guests have breakfast?

A. In the Thai restaurant.

C. In the American restaurant.

13、What sports does the center offer?

A. Water sports B. Badminton.

B. Rooms with a sea view.

B. In the Chinese restaurant.

C. Various sports

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

14、What is the relationship between the speakers?

A. Teacher and student.

C. Colleagues.

15、What does the man think of Ms. White?

A. Formal. B. Casual. C. Mean.

B. Interviewer and interviewee.

16、How often do the woman and Ms. White have a get-together?

A. Every Friday. B. Twice a week. C. Once a month.

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

17、What attracts the speaker in Africa?

A. The running water.

C. Freely running animals.

18、Which place has the speaker visited?

A. Australia. B. Japan. C. Russia.

B. Meeting new people.

19、What’s the speaker’s opinion about travelling?

A. It’s tiring. B. It’s expensive. C. It’s easy.

20、What will the speaker do in the future?

A. Turn to a new way for fun.

C. Continue to do what she likes.

二、阅读理解

It’s not easy to find a job. Many jobs have age or experience requirements that you might

not meet. On top of that, you need to juggle(应付) schoolwork, extra curriculars, and your

social life. Fortunately, there are still some good jobs for you to start gaining working

experience.

Tutor

B. Try every means to save money.

Straight-A student? Then a job as a tutor(家庭教师) might be the best option for you.

Helping younger students with their homework is a great way to put what you’ve studied to

good use and make some extra money. One of the easiest ways to show that you’re qualified

to teach other students is by listing your GPA(Grade Point Average) on your tutor resume.

Dog Walker

Love dogs? Then a position as a dog walker is the perfect fit for you. Dog walking requires

no work experience and has flexible hours. However, you may need to do some shadowing or

an interview before people trust you with their pets.

Delivery Driver

If you’re 16+ years old and have a driver’s license, you could try working as a delivery

driver. Driving is a great way to gain relevant experience and show future employers that

you’re responsible and work well under pressure.

Call Center Representative

If you don’t mind talking on the phone, then a job as a call center worker is a good choice

for you. Working as a call center representative can even teach you some useful customer

service skills that will help your career later on. To land a job at a call center, highlight your

customer service and interpersonal skills on your resume.

21、Who are the passage intended for?

A. Parents. B. Teachers. C. Students. D. Employers.

22、What qualifies you as a tutor?

A. Relevant experience.

C. Flexible time schedule.

B. Timely homework completion.

D. Impressive academic performance.

23、Which job requires good social skills?

A. Tutor. B. Dog walker.

D. Call center representative. C. Delivery driver.

The first time I realized that I had a love for sports competitions was during the Field Day

in elementary school. Small for my age, and more of a bookworm than a sports enthusiast, I

had suffered that special humiliation of being picked last for various gym teams. The Field

Day, which focused on individual skills, was different. In the Softball Throw event, I got my

first taste of sporting victory. Credit goes to the example of my first coach, my father. He

lifted weights every morning at home. He bought us all baseball gloves and hats, and in the

warm months, we spent hours playing catch. Come fall, our backyard football games began

with passing practice.

Once I got to sixth grade and switched to private school, our entire student body was

assigned to either the Red or the White team. Throughout the year, we competed against each

other in various games and exercises for points. I eventually became president of The

Committee of Games, accelerating my competitive fever. However, in girls’ sports games at

my school, I was no star. I also played on the field hockey team and the basketball team.

School sports did not bleed into the weekends, as they do today, but at home, playing tennis,

skating, skiing and biking were simply normal things we did. During break time, magazines

were also quite popular for us teens. These regularly featured articles on physical exercise.

Somehow, my college roommate and I took up the habit of completing Royal Canadian Air

Force (RCAF) exercises every day, a practice that continued into my marriage, when we had

no spare funds to use to join a gym.

So, though it shocks some of our friends, that early foundation evolved in adulthood into a

sports and fitness focus, considered essential even on vacation. I still love reading and the arts,

too. As far as I’m concerned, life is the richest with my feet in both worlds.

24、What does the underlined word “humiliation” mean in Paragraph 1?

A. responsibility. B. disappointment C. shame D. desire

25、What did the author owe her victory in the Softball Throw event to?

A. Her advanced sports outfits.

B. Her confidence in her sports ability.

C. The sports talent inherited from her father.

D. The guidance and training offered by her father.

26、What happened after the author stepped into adulthood?

A. She generally exercised on weekends. B. She joined Royal Canadian Air Force.

C. She preferred reading to exercising. D. She maintained her love for sports.

27、What is the author’s purpose in writing the article?

A. To describe how her father built her interest in sports.

B. To recall her childhood memories about sports.

C. To express her passion for sports and fitness.

D. To emphasize the benefits of physical exercise.

Today, poetry and science are often considered to be mutually exclusive(互相排斥) career

paths. But that wasn’t always the case. The mathematician Ada Lovelace and the physicist

James Clerk Maxwell were both accomplished poets. The poet John Keats was a licensed

surgeon. Combining the two practices fell out of favor in the 1800s. But translating research

into lyrics, haiku, and other poetic forms is resurging(再现) among scientists as they look for

alternative ways to inspire others with their findings.

“Poetry is a great tool for questioning the world,” says Sam Illingworth, a poet and a

geoscientist who works at the University of Western Australia. Through workshops and a new

science-poetry journal, called Consilience, Illingworth is helping scientists to translate their

latest results into poems that can attract appreciation from those outside of their immediate

scientific field.

Stephany Mazon, a scientist from the University of Helsinki in Finland, joined one of

Illingworth’s workshops. In the workshop, she was grouped with other scientists and tasked

with writing a haiku, a 17-syllable-long poem, which spotlighted water, a fluid that featured

in all of the group members’ research projects. “It was a lot of fun, and surprisingly easy to

write the poem,” Mazon says. She plans to continue writing. “We do a disservice(伤害) to

ourselves to think that scientists can’t be artistic and that art can’t be used to communicate

scientific ideas,” Mazon says.

That viewpoint is echoed by Illingworth, who thinks science communication initiatives are

too often dominated by public lectures with their hands-off PowerPoint slides. “Actually,

when science communication involves writing and sharing poems, it invites a two-way

dialogue between experts and nonexperts,” he says. Scientist-poet Manjula Silva, an educator

at Imperial College London, agrees. Poetry provides a way to translate complex scientific

concepts into a language that everyone can understand, Silva says.

Scientists and poets are both trying to understand the world and communicate that

understanding with others. The distinction between scientists and poets is less than people

might think. We’re all just people with hopefully really interesting things to say and to share.

28、What is the purpose of mentioning the celebrities in paragraph 1?

A. To display they were talented.

B. To confirm they were out of favor.

C. To encourage different career paths.

D. To show poetry and science can be combined.

29、What are Illingworth’s workshops aimed to do?

A. Promote a new science-poetry journal.

B. Inspire outsiders to pursue their careers in science.

C. Encourage science communication through poems

D. Get scientists to exchange ideas about the latest research.

30、What does Illingworth think of the dominant ways of science communication?

A. Conventional. B. Effective. C. Innovative. D. Complex.

31、Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A. Scientists Take on Poetry

B. Scientists and Poets Think Alike

C. Poetry: A Great Tool to Question the World

D. Science Communication: A Two-way Dialogue

Jason, a straight-A student from the University of Pennsylvania, uses the term “pseudo-

working” to describe how many of us study. The pseudo-worker looks and feels like someone

who is working hard—he or she spends a long time in the library and is not afraid to push on

late into the night—but, because of a lack of focus and concentration, he or she’s doesn’t

actually accomplish much.

This phenomenon can be seen on most college campuses. For example, at Dartmouth there

was a section of the main library that was open twenty-four hours a day, and the students I

used to see there late at night crowded in groups, drinking coffee, were definitely pseudo-

working. The roommate who flips through her chemistry notes on the couch while watching

TV is pseudo-working.

By placing themselves in distracting environments and insisting on working long hours,

these students are damaging their brain’s ability to think clearly and efficiently accomplish

the task at hand. In the end they get half the results with twice the effort.

The bigger problem here is that most students don’t even realize that they’re pseudo-

working. To them pseudo-working is work—it’s how they’ve always done it, and it’s how all

of their friends do it. It never crosses their mind that there might be a better way. Straight-A

students, on the other hand, know all about pseudo-working. They fear it. It not only wastes

time, but it’s also mentally tiring.

In fact, the most important skill in becoming a straight—A student is the ability to get work

done quickly and with a minimum of wasted effort. Some cognitive science research

concludes that about fifty minutes is the optimal learning period to maximize the material

integrated per time unit. So how do these students achieve this goal? To understand their

secret to success, consider the following simple formula (公式): work accomplished = time

spent × intensity of focus

Pseudo-working features a very low intensity of focus. Therefore, to accomplish something

by pseudo-working, you need to spend a lot of time. The straight—A approach on the other

hand, increases intensity in order to use less time.

32、Which of the following phenomenon is pseudo-working?

A. Tom is busy taking notes while attending a lecture.

B. Mike is sitting at a study lounge in preparation for a final exam quietly.

C. Jack spends a long time in the library on his essay while listening to music.

D. Alice and Sara are sitting on the couch reading their favorite books.

33、Compared with straight-A students, the major problem of most students is that they

______.

A. want to spend more time on study B. are eager to follow their friends’ way

C. have got used to their study approach D. are unaware of their pseudo-working

34、What does the underlined word “optimal” mean in paragraph 5?

A. Possible. B. Best. C. Least. D. Accurate.

35、What does the author want to stress by mentioning the formula?

A. The length of time on study counts.

B. Concentration plays a key role in study.

C. Getting work done quickly means everything.

D. Effective study approach is very important.

三、七选五

36、 Now I live in Paris. Actually, I don’t mind the food or the people, but I do care about

the land that is extraordinarily lack of characteristics of hiking. I enjoy being outdoors and

hiking, but Paris’s natural resources don’t hold much potential for my bent. So when my dad

asked if I wanted to go hiking with him, I was overjoyed. ①_____. It turned out that I was

too optimistic.

We started our main hike up Flattop Mountain. As we hiked it was much more challenging

than I expected. ②_____. The path is winding and we saw mountains towering over the

green valleys and cliffs that seemed endless. What amazed me most was that thick clouds

enveloped the mountainsides. ③_____.

I stared up at the top to see how much farther we had to go and I began to worry that I

wouldn’t finish it. ④_____. It made me doubtful about my persistence(坚持). But when we

looked back at the path that faded in the distance, I was filled with fulfillment with seeing

how much we had done.

As I was hiking, I started to reflect on how hiking was similar to other aspects of my life.

⑤_____. It reminded me of my struggles in my classes and the difficulties I had to overcome.

I spotted that the process of learning isn’t always the most fun, but the fulfillment after seeing

how much I had finished just increases the thirst for knowledge, causing me to long for more

learning. Looking down at the mountain I was content but never fully satisfied. Having

considered a lot, I was determined to pursue the summit(山顶).

A. Hiking could make me fly.

B. Hiking gave time for my mind to wander.

C. I thought I would finish the journey with ease.

D. But I was shocked at the beauty surrounding me.

E. I was satisfied with the landscape along the way.

F. It was unlike anything I had ever witnessed before.

G. A recent ankle injury had left me unsure of my physical capabilities.

四、完形填空（15空）

Growing up, my parents never forced me and my brother out of our house in Hounslow,

but we weren’t 1 to live there forever.

My family always had a special 2 for me. Our parents encouraged us to spend time

together: meals were eaten as a family and TV viewing was 3 . When I went to university

at 18, I knew my messy student apartments were 4 —my real home was back in

Hounslow and I was 5 that I could return whenever I wanted to.

When I was 19, my mum passed away. In the following months, I would come back 6

checking in on my dad and 7 him to go shopping and start cooking proper meals. Three

years later, I was 8 and I moved back. As I looked for work, I would 9 the meals were

eaten together.

10 , two sad men living in a house are less of a family. My dad wanted me to get on

and live my life rather than stay trapped in our sorrow. Eventually, in 2018, I got a 11 . It

was time for me to gain 12 , and I packed up and left.

Next year will be 10 years since my mum died. Our family home is 13 . My mum’s

pictures have been replaced with new photographs; her clothes and scent are gone. But, I am

14 that things have become different. I’ve realized that the home my mum created isn’t just

a(n) 15 —it is something she instilled (灌输) in us.

37、A. encouraged B. reminded

38、A. plan B. pull

C. allowed

C. request

C. favored

C. ordinary

D. persuaded

D. pressure

D. scheduled

D. temporary

39、A. guaranteed B. shared

40、A. inconvenient B. disturbing

41、A. concerned

42、A. secretly

43、A. urging

B. convinced

B. hesitantly

B. instructing

C. grateful

C. regularly

C. inviting

C. in debt

C. believe

C. Unfortunately

C. hobby

C. confidence

C. enlarging

C. glad

C. dream

D. hopeful

D. randomly

D. forcing

D. in pain

D. ensure

D. Unexpectedly

D. vacation

D. independence

D. changing

D. nervous

D. image

44、A. out of touch B. out of work

45、A. pretend

46、A. Unusually

47、A. gift

B. find

B. Unbelievably

B. job

48、A. experience B. comfort

49、A. disappearing B. struggling

50、A. shocked

51、A. place

B. confused

B. meal

五、语法填空

52、 It is familiar to us Chinese that the year of 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, ①

_____reminds us of the “rabbit” on the moon, China's Yutu-2 lunar rover (月球车)

The Yutu-2 is named ②_____ the pet rabbit of the Chinese moon goddess Chang'e. On

January 3, 2019, the rover was brought to the far side of the moon by China's Chang'e-4 lunar

probe. It was the first-ever soft landing on the ③_____(previous) uncharted area of the lunar

surface.

The Chang'e-4 lunar probe consists of a lander and the Yutu-2 rover. Before its launch, a

relay satellite ④_____(send) into space in May 2018 to facilitate earth-moon communication.

So far, the rover has collected ⑤_____(value) data on solar wind, soil, gel-like rocks and

dead volcanoes. The data and images sent back by the Yutu-2 have enhanced geography

knowledge of the landing site, ⑥_____(deepen) understanding of the formation and

evolution of the moon.

Of the many pictures of the lunar landscape ⑦_____(take) by the Yutu-2, one square

object caused great debate among people on Earth. When the rover finally approached the

object, it turned out to be ⑧_____ rabbit-shaped rock. What an interesting coincidence!

The Yutu-2 ⑨_____(travel) more than 1,400 meters on the far side of the moon till now. It

will continue to uncover more ⑩_____(mystery) of the moon.

六、书面表达

53、假定你是李华，你的英国朋友David在中国旅行，他对中国菜很感兴趣，你所在

的城市将在下周举办“中华美食节”，请你写封电子邮件邀请他参加这个活动。要点如

下：

1. 举办时间、地点;

2. 活动内容、安排;

3. 邀请并期待对方参加。

注意：

1. 写作词数应为80左右;

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

参考词汇：中华美食节Chinese Food Festival

Dear David,

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

____

Yours,

Li Hua

七、读后续写

54、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短

文。

Sam was a junior high school student. He lived in a community in Charlotte and usually

had little exposure to country life. So much of what he knew about plants came from text-

books. Sam was a kind-hearted person. He longed for a chance to explore nature and he

wanted to do his part to beautify the world.

Finally, the opportunity came. On Arbor Day (植树节), his class organized a trip to a local

village to plant trees. Sam was excited about it and couldn’t wait to tell his mom the good

news. So the next day, Sam and his mom went to buy some tools for planting trees, including

a shovel(铲), a bucket, gloves and so on.

On the day of the event, Sam and his classmates arrived early at the starting point. It was a

beautiful day and everyone looked particularly happy. With the tools in hand, Sam got into

the bus with everyone else and headed off to their destination.

As soon as they reached the village, all the students were divided into three teams by their

teacher. One team was responsible for planting the trees, one team for shovelling the soil and

one team for watering the trees. At the teacher’s command, everyone started to do their job.

However, it was the first time that many of the students had taken part in planting trees, so

they had no idea about how to start. Of course, Sam was one of them. Fortunately, their

teacher was a middle-aged man from the countryside who had some knowledge of planting

trees. In order to set an example to the students, the teacher started to plant trees himself.

After watching the teacher plant the trees, everyone also became busy. Before long, they

planted hundreds of trees. Sam watched very carefully, not wanting to miss any of the details.

Finally, Sam learned how to plant trees by himself and felt happy.

注意：

1.续写词数应为150左右;

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

A few days later, a storm damaged some young trees in the community.

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________

The neighbours praised Sam for what he had done

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

参考答案

1、答案：C

解析：W: Shall we take a bus or a taxi to the museum? I’m too tired to walk any further.

M: It’s almost impossible to find a taxi during the rush hour.

W: Look there comes one. Taxi!

2、答案：B

解析：W: Here is a bag on the chair. Is it yours?

M: Is it a brown bag?

W: No, it isn’t. This one is white and yellow.

M: Maybe it’s John’s.

3、答案：A

解析：M: You said you’re German? But your English is excellent. Where did you learn

English?

W: In New Zealand.

M: Wow! You speak English so fluently that I thought you’re from England.

4、答案：C

解析：M: Ok, Mary. It’s time to go. Waiter, can I have the bill?

W: Frank, let’s split the bill this time.

M: No, it’s my treat. I really want to thank you for your help with my work.

W: Oh, you are so kind.

5、答案：C

解析：W: Hi, Jack! We haven’t seen each other since we last met.

M: Yes. We haven’t met for ages!

W: How is your job going?

M: I’ve been trying to find a new one in another company. You see, I’ve worked here for

three years without a promotion.

6、答案： C

解析：W: What’s it like working with aged people all day, Mark?

M: It’s difficult because many of them need a lot of care.

W: Oh, how can you manage this?

M: Love and patience are what I need to nurse the old people.

W: What are the things you do every day?