辽宁省六校协作体2024-2024学年高二下学期开学考试英语试卷
2024—2024学年度下学期六校协作体高二期初考试
英语试题
120分，计分时折合成150分，考试用时100分钟。
第一卷（选择题）
第一部分：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）
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
A
Shakespeare’s Birthplace and Exhibition of Shakespeare’s World
Welcome to the world-famous house where William Shakespeare was born in l564 and where he grew up. The property (房产) remained in the ownership of Shakespeare’s family until 1806.The House has welcomed visitors traveling from all over the world for over 250 years.
◆Enter through the Visitors’ Centre and see the highly-praised exhibition Shakespeare’s World, a lively and full introduction to the life and work of Shakespeare.
◆Stand in the rooms where Shakespeare grew up.
◆Discover examples of furniture and needlework from Shakespeare’s period.
◆Enjoy the traditional English garden, planted with trees and flowers mentioned in the poet’s works.
◆The Birthplace is within easy walking distance of all the car parks shown on the map; nearest is Windsor Street(3 minutes’ Walk)
◆The House may present difficulties but the Visitors’ Centre, its exhibition, and the garden are accessible to wheelchair users.
OPENING TIMES:
20 Mar. to 19 Oct.
Mon. to Sat. : 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.
Sun: 9:30 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.
20 Oct. to 19 Mar
Mon. to Sat : 9:00 a. m. to 4:00 p. m.
Sun. : 10:00 a. m. to 4:00 p.m.
ADMISSION:
Adult: ￡6Child: ￡4Family: ￡16.00 (2 adults+ up to 3 children)
21. How much is the admission for a family of two grown-ups and two children?
A.￡18.
B.￡12.00. C.￡16.
D.￡20
22. Where is the nearest parking place to Shakespeare’s Birthplace?
A. At Windsor Street.
B. Opposite the Visitors’ Centre.
C. Behind the exhibition hall.
D. Near the House.
23. While visiting the house, a visitor may do the following except______
A. see some exhibition and introduction to the life and work of Shakespeare.
B. discover examples of furniture and needlework from Shakespeare’s period.
C. enjoy the trees and flowers mentioned in Shakespeare’s works.
D. buy some Shakespeare’s works to read.
24. A wheelchair user may have no difficulty entering .
A. the garden B. the exhibition hall C. the Visitors’ Centre D. all above
B
I travel a lot in my work, and what I dislike about my job is eating alone. It always makes me feel lonely to see others laughing and talking. So, room service for several nights was a better choice for me.
After having room service three nights at a hotel in Houston, however, I needed to get out of my room. Although the restaurant opened at 6:30, I arrived at 6:25. The waiter at the front desk made a comment about my “being there really early”. I explained my dislike of eating alone in restaurants. He then seated me at a lovely table and asked me whether I would mind if he sat down with me for a while.
I was glad! He sat and talked with me about his career goals and the difficulty of being at work on nights, weekends and holidays. He said he hadn’t enough time to be with his family. After 15 minutes, he saw some customers at the front desk and excused himself. I noticed that before he went to the front desk, he stopped in the kitchen for a moment.
Then another waiter came out of the kitchen and had a wonderful chat with me. Before I left that night, some other waiters, even the cook, had come out of the kitchen and sat with me!
When I asked for my bill about one hour later, all the people who had sat down with me came over in a big group to my table, and presented me with a red rose. And I cried! What had begun as a lonely night ended as a beautiful experience.
25. The author hated to eat alone in the restaurant because of______.
A. the noises created by others around
B. the feeling of being loneliness
C. the strangers laughing at him
D. the dishes served there
26. From the third paragraph, we can learn that the waiter at the front desk ______.
A. was getting tired of his present job
B. found it hard to balance his work and his family
C. knew how to attract more customers to his restaurant
D. had never had such a chance to talk about his worries
27. The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to ______. A. show his love for this restaurant B. teach us a lesson C. share a moving experience D. recommend a good restaurant
28. What does the underlined word comment in the second paragraph mean？
A. explanation
B. complaint
C. description
D. remark
C
Your children’s teacher will be providing extra time for test preparation. This school year’s test will be held on January 8 and 9. The test preparation time is open to all students, and we strongly encourage your children to attend.
This year we are changing the time for our test preparation: it will be on Thursday mornings from 8:10 to 8:50. This helps children who ride the bus and cannot stay for the after-school period. It also helps avoid conflicts with after-school activities.
Danielle and Marina will be working with the recent new test takers 6 days on the following Thursdays: 15th, Nov; 29th, Nov; 6th, Dec; 13th, Dec.; 20th, Dec. and 3rd, Jan.
Besides the test preparation lectures on these dates, teachers are already putting test preparation into their usual courses. We are finding that we can help our students to be both skillful and whole-hearted readers and test takers — after all, we all know that the best test preparation is good reading and writing training.
What can you do at home? Again, the best and most effective test preparation for the ELA test is reading and more reading. The research is quite clear — students who do well in the tests are those who are good readers. Reading not only builds reading ability, it also helps build confidence — important for successful test taking! But do discourage your children from spending too much time on books that are too hard or even a bit too hard. Children best develop comprehension skills when they are reading books just right for them (too easy doesn’t hurt here either).
Finally, on Friday, December 7, we will have a morning lecture on the ELA. Please pay attention!
29. The text is intended for________.
A. teachers
B. students
C. parents
D. lecturers
30. Why is the time for test preparation changed?
A. To help the new test-takers have more time to read
B. To make it more convenient for the students to attend
C. To avoid disagreement in time between different years of students
D. To avoid conflicts between preparation time and the usual courses
31. What should parents do at home?
A. encourage their children to read more difficult books
B. make sure their children read more books fit for them
C. discourage their children from reading easy books
D. spend more time reading books with their children
32. What’s the purpose of the text?
A. To inform
B. To explain
C. To complain
D. To describe
D
Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some form---football, basketball, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion(激情) for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with surprise. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks in high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their free time.
Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as others, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of different kinds which would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.
If we compare mountaineering with other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.
The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities.
A mountain climber continues to improve in skills year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty. But it is not unusual for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they perhaps climb with more skills and less waste of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.
33. Why does the author mention some physical activities in the first paragraph?
A. To compare them.
B. To bring up the topic
C. To offer some information
D. To give the readers some advice
34. Mountaineering is a sport, not a game because ________.
A. it requires no skills
B. it is too dangerous for climbers
C. it can’t bring people joy and leisure
D. it is free of man-made rule是 for climbers to follow.
35. From the text, we can learn________.
A. a mountain climber needs to have high mental and physical qualities
B. men and women have to suffer hardship only in mountaineering
C. there is no man-made rules in games, such as golf and football
D. mountaineering is not suitable for middle-aged people
第二节
（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Problems, which are a part of our lives, come in different shapes and colors and feelings. We’ve been fighting troubles ever since we were born.____36____. Now read on to know how to solve your problems.
Talk, it really helps. What most of us think is that our problems can be understood only by us and that no talking is going to help. But the truth is that when you talk about it, you’re setting free the negative energies that have been gathering within you. 37.________
Write your problems. Having a personal diary can also be of huge help if you don’t want a real person to talk with. When you write down your problems, you are setting free all the tension from your system. 38.________ . By doing this, imagine yourself throwing away the problems from your life. 39.________ . No matter what you lose in life, don’t lose faith and hope. Even if you lose all your money, family… you should still have faith. With faith and hope, you can rebuild everything that you lose.
Remember your problems aren’t the worst. No matter what problem you get in life, there’re another one million people whose problems are huger than yours. 40.________ Your problems might just seem big个人 and worse, but in reality they can be removed.
A. Don’t lose faith and hope.
B. Talking helps you move on and let go.
C. But good news is that all problems can be dealt with.
D. Tell yourself: when they can deal with them, why can’t I?
E. Go and solve your problems because every problem always has a way out.
F. You can try throwing away the paper on which you wrote your problems.
G. We can often overcome the problem and achieve the goal by making a direct attack.
第二部分
英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项.
Like many youngsters, when I was young at school, I loved to talk, a characteristic not always appreciated by Miss Jordan, my tenth-grade English teacher.
She was a teacher no one wanted because she was so 41 . She wore her hair pulled back in a way that gave her a horsy look. Whenever she got upset, she would lower her head and look at you 42 the top of her glasses.
One day in her class I was busy 43
. I didn’t realize she had stopped teaching and was staring straight at me. “Young lady, I would like to see you 44 school.”
Later Miss Jordan explained in a low, but firm voice that showed she 45 me to listen when she was talking. For 46
she told me to write a thousand word essay on education and its effect on the economy. She wanted it in by the following Wednesday.
Well, I 47 my deadline. I was confident it was a good paper. And I expected a sign of 48.________ from her. But 49
, the next day in class, she was looking at me over her glasses. She called me forward and 50 my paper. “Go back and rewrite,” she said. “Remember, each paragraph is 51 to begin with a topic sentence.” When she gave my paper back a second time, she corrected the grammar. The third time, the spelling. The fourth time, it was punctuation. The fifth, it wasn’t neat enough. I was
52 !
The sixth time, I rewrote the whole paper 53 , in ink, leaving generous space. When she saw it, she removed her glasses and smiled. This time she didn’t 54.________ my paper. After that, I put the whole thing out of my 55.________ .
Two_ 56
three months passed. One day Miss Jordan came into the class and said to us: “Class, do you still remember an essay contest held citywide? They’ve announced the 57
. I am happy to inform you that Mary has won the third prize in the essay contest—‘On the Impact of Education on the Economy’.”
I was amazed and
58 . It was the first time I had ever won a prize. Years later, that experience still 59
with me. I believe the efforts you put into your work would___60___in one way or another
41. A. open-minded
B. careful C. strict
D. cold-hearted
42. A. upon B. on C. under
D. over
43. A. talking B. writing C. listening D. laughing
44. A. at
B. after C. before
D. in
45. A. hoped B. suggested C. expected D. demanded
46. A. punishment B. motivation C. objection D. encouragement
47. A. arrived B. met C. received D. recognized
48. A. praise B. respect C. comment D. suggestion
