绝密启用前
淄博市20232024 学年度第一学期高 2024 届期中检测
英 语
注意事项：
1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
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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。
例：How much is the shirt?
A.19.15.
B.9.18.
C.9.15.
答案是 C。
1.Why does the woman call the man?
A.To place an order.
B.To report a delay
C.To arrange a delivery date.
2.What does the woman want the m a i to do?
A.Collect her book.
B.Lend her a book.
C.Buy some juice.
3.What is the woman looking for?
A.Her handbag.
B.Her passport.
C.Her boarding pass
4.What will the weather probably be like this afternoon?
A.Rainy
B.Foggy
C.Sunny
5.What are the speakers talking about?
A.A tree.
B.A survey
C.A country
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、7 题。
6.How will t ha woman go to the meeting center?
A.On foot.
B.By car.
C.By taxi.
7.Where does the conversation probably take place?
A.In a restaurant.
B.In a hotel.
C.At a train station.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。
8.What did the woman dislike about the concert?
A.The venue.
B.The singer.
C The music.
9.What did the speakers think of the support bands?
A.Moving
B.Surprising.
C.Disappointing
听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 13 题。
10.What does the man want to deliver?
A.Some books.
B.Some brochures.
C.Some DVDs.
11.How long will it take the man to send it by Airmail?
A.Two days
B.Three days
C.Within two weeks.
12.How much should the man pay if he uses International Signed For?
A.9.50.
B.11.50.
C.13.50.
13.How will the man deliver his package?
A.By Airmail.
B.By Air Sure.
C.By surface mail.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。
14.What is the most difficult thing for the man to play a superhero?
A.Keeping his figure.
B.Remembering the lines.
C.Completing exciting actions.
15.When did the man start acting?
A.After getting his first job.
B.When joining a drama club.
C.Before studying at university.
16.What did the man's brothers like to do at weekends?
A.Play sports
B.Watch films.
C.Make posters
17.Who runs a business in the man's family?
A.His mother.
B.His father.
C.His older brother.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。
18.What did the speaker want to be at first?
A.A research scientist.
B.An English teacher.
C.A diving instructor.
19.Where did the speaker go right after university?
A.To Australia.
B.To Jamaica.
C.To South Africa.
20.How do most customers know the speaker's company?
A.From magazines
B.On the Internet.
C.Through word of mouth.
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 50 分)
第一节(共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
A
Apply for a Spring Horn Book Internship(实习)
Interested in learning more about the children's book industry,book reviewing or how
magazines and review journals operate?A Horn Book internship is a great place to start.
We just offer spring,summer and fall internships.We hope to enroll(招募)people under
30who have bachelor degree or above.The next application deadline,for Spring 2024
internships, is November 30,2023.Internships are paid($15 per hour)and are approximately ten
hours per week.Hopefully you can work four weeks a month.We are currently accepting
applications for Spring 2024 internships,which will likely include a combination of remote
work and occasional in-person work in the Boston area.
Our interns(实习生)are an invaluable help for us.Their responsibilities include:
Manage the large number of digital books that enter and leave our virtual office.
Upload books,format reviews and enter books into our database—all at the same time
becoming familiar with publishing industry.
Fact-check reviews,newsletters and articles and sometimes do some writing of their own.
Take on projects like scanning our previous publication or tracking down former issues.
To apply,send a resume(简历),cover letter and contact information for a professional
reference (employer or professor)to Monica de los Reyes (mdelosreyes@hbook.com).
More information is available here.
21.What do Spring 2024 internships require to do?
A.Sign up in late December.
B.Accomplish tasks in remote places.
C.Always work in the Boston area.
D.Manage work online most of the time.
22.What's an intern's duty?
A.Managing some printed books.
B.Downloading books from the Internet.
C.Looking through some former journals.
D.Writing some reviews,newsletters and articles.
23.Who will be attracted by the position?
A.Those available in winter.
B.Those fond of the press industry.
C.Those keen on volunteering.
D.Those willing to earn a degree.
B
A nervous 11-year-old called Anthony showed up at Peter Mutabazi's doorstep around 3
a.m.,wearing blue sleepwear and a gray Batman blanket over his shoulders Having been
abandoned at a hospital by his adopted parents and desperately needing a place to stay for the
weekend,he carried a bag holding a sweater,a pair of sneakers and not much else.
It was January 2017.Mutabazi wasn't ready to take in more kids—he had just said goodbye
to two foster(寄养的)brothers and needed time to regroup.Then he remembered what it was
like to feel scared,alone and unwanted.As a boy,he fled from his home where his parents abused
him and lived on the streets of Kampala,Uganda,before a stranger paid his high-school
tuition(学费),leading to a college scholarship and an eventual move to the US.
Within minutes of his arrival,Anthony asked Mutabazi if he could call him dad.The
boy,who had been in the foster care system since he was a little.kid,never left Mutabazis house
that weekend as planned.Mutabazi adopted him and gave him his last name.
Last month,Mutabazi formally adopted two more children:brothers who had lived with
him for three years.Mark,8,is the new boss of the house while Luke,7,is a shy boy with a sweet
smile.Their family is an unconventional one—he is Black,and his adopted kids are White—but
Mutabazi,49,believes that love transcends racial differences.
Since becoming a foster father in 2016,he has hosted about three dozen kids of all races
and cultures.Some of his foster children are reunited with their families,while others remain in
his care.Mutabazi shares glimpses of his life as a foster dad with his 328,000 followers on
Instagram to encourage other men to be active fathers and signal that a healthy family is based
on love,not skin color.
24.Why did Anthony show up at Peter Mutabazi's doorstep?
A.He hoped to help Mutabazi.
B.He begged for more sneakers.
C.He fled from a hospital secretly.
D He wanted Mutabazi to adopt him.
25.What happened to Mutabazi when he was young?
A.He was abused by his brother.
B.He was brought to the US by his parents.
C.He was sponsored by a stranger for education.
D.He loved playing on the streets of Kampala,Uganda.
26.What does the underlined word transcendsin paragraph 4 mean?
A.Goes beyond.
B.Walks through.
C.Runs after.
D.Takes off.
27.What does the author want to convey in the text?
A.Hard work pays off.
B.Love really makes a difference.
C.Education is a key to success.
D.The roses in her hand,the flavor in mine.
C
Five years ago,we cut nearly every single tree across 19 acres here,piled and burned the
branches and left the trunks where they lay.The goal was to restore one of the Ozarks' rarest
ecosystems,a type of dry and rocky grassland.
Logging down trees to bring back grass may seem puzzling in a time of climate change,as
forest conservation and tree planting have become popular ways to keep carbon out of the
atmosphere.But it is exactly what we should do in some parts of the Southeast.The climate and
biodiversity crises are problems to be solved together.We can't afford to rob biodiversity to pay
for the climate.And grasslands are surprisingly good at pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.A
single sunflower might not be the carbon grab that an oak tree is,but grass's deep root systems
store the element deep underground,where it can take hundreds or thousands of years to return
to the atmosphere.
For the past century,the commonly held belief was that forests once covered most of the
region from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.But we now know that's not true.Much
of the Southeast was a string of large and small grassland ecosystems with enormous
biodiversity.All of these unique grasslands are under threat,but not all by tree invasion.The few
remaining grasslands in Arkansas are being converted to grow rice,Virginia grasslands are
being flattened by housing developers,and low-lying coastal grassy plain is facing sea-level
rise.Because grasslands are so easily navigated( 导航)and settled,they may be the most
threatened ecosystems in the world.
And it's obvious that everywhere,grasslands remain undervalued.Many conservation
organizations working in the Southeast are still focused on tree planting and preserving existing
forests.The Nature Conservancy's Cumberland Forest Project covers 253,000 acres of land in
Kentucky,Tennessee and Virginia,part of an effort to store carbon and create continuous habitats
for species migration during climate change.In fact,recent laws are beginning to lead us in the
right direction.
28.Why were the trees cut down in Ozarks?
A.To take in more carbon.
B.To regain its grassland.
C.To create a new ecosystem.
D.To deal with climate change.
29.What is paragraph 3 of the text mainly about?
A.The reasons for grasslands reduction.
B.The purpose of cutting down trees.
C.The changes of ecosystems.
D.The result of tree invasion.
30.What is presented about grasslands in the Southeast?
A.Grasslands are greatly valued.
B.Carbon can be broken down by grasslands.
C.Forests took up more region than grasslands.
D.All the grasslands are not threatened by trees.
31.What might the author continue talking about?
A.The importance of grasslands.
B.The influence of planting trees.
C.The measures of restoring grasslands.
D.The present situation of the Southeast.
D
Sound echoing within caves may have also influenced what early humans put on rock
walls.Thousands of years ago,early humans adventured deep within a cave,where sound
bounced off the walls.Perhaps by either speaking or walking,they generated the sound re-
mindful of a hoof.To represent this sound,they drew a hoofed animal.
They would have been using the same skills that facilitated the earlier development of
language,theorizes anew study.“Our research suggests that the cognitive mechanisms(认知机
制)necessary for the development of cave and rock art are likely to be similar to those employed
in the expression of the symbolic thinking required for language.”says Cora Leisure,a linguist
at MIT and one of the study's authors.
Whether or not this art would have shaped how language further developed is doubtful.The
study's researchers note that language is thought to have evolved around 100,000 years ago.And
the oldest forms of cave art found date back roughly 40,000 years.“We could assume that human
language.emerged as an abstract symbolic system,while its expression—in the form of cave
and rock art,or any other modality—may have appeared very late,says Vitor Nobrega,a linguist
at the University of Sao Paulo and author on the study.
The markings,they suggest,are external representations of internalized thought.“It's a
theory contrary to a belief among archaeologists( 考 古 学 家 )that language doesn't
fossilize”,says Lesure,adding that their study doesn't outright say the cave art they looked at
equals language,only that the same cognitive functions may have been present.
Archaeologists have theorized early evidence of language can be found in objects like
converted bones that may have been used for anything from counting days to taking
attendance.But they are still searching for some of the first physical evidence of linguistic
capabilities. The sound factor is an important one to consider,but it was not the only explanation
for why people made marks in the places they did.
32.Why does the author mention early humans in paragraph 1?
A.To present an idea.
B.To clarify a concept.
C.Ta introduce the topic.
D.To provide background information.
33.What can we know about the cave art according to the new study?
A.It is identical to language.
B.It appeared later than human language.
C.It can further language development.
D.It can help identify when humans began speaking.
34.What is the archaeologists' attitude to the origin of language?
A.Uncertain.
B.Doubtful.
C.Approving
D.Indifferent.
35.Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A.The Evolution of Ancient Language.
B.A New Study of Ancient Cave Drawing.
C.Ancient Cave Arts Influenced by Echoing Sound.
D.Ancient Cave Drawings and Early Human Language Linked,
第二节(共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 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。
How to Boost Your Memory
The brain might be the place where memories are stored,and its memory capacity can be
enlarged.__36__Taking steps to improve your lifestyle in the following four areas will help
keep your mind sharp.
__37__ Exercise helps with the activity of brain cells and also helps reduce the risk of
brain diseases.It also helps brain cells repair themselves and their connections to other brain
cells.Memory can improve in both brain-healthy older adults and with mild brain disorder after
a 12-week exercise program.
Getting sugar from fruits and vegetables instead of products with added sugars is
healthier for body and brain.Too much sugar restricts blood flow to the brain and can even cause
brain illness.The real brain foods are those called the mind diet.__38__
Sleep is critical for memory formation,especially long-term memory formation.That's
because when you're asleep,the brain.runs the tape of what it recorded during the day,gets rid
of information that isn't relevant and then stores other information for the long term.__39__
The more you can keep a regular sleep schedule,the better off your brain and the rest of you
will be.
Challenging your brain is of great benefit.too.Maybe you're a crazy bridge player,a
crossword puzzle lover or a regular lecturer.__40__To get the most memory boost out of
puzzles or intellectual activities,the key is to keep things fresh and challenging.New and
challenging activities help form new pathways in the brain.
A.Regular physical activities protect memory and thinking skills.
B.All the mentally engaging activities can help keep our minds active.
C.Exercise can build your body and improve your working efficiency.
D.Many lifestyle factors can have a positive effect on promoting your memory.
E.It emphasizes brain healthy intake of nutrients instead of high calories or sugars.
F.That's why people diagnosed with sleep disorders are at higher risk of memory decline.
G.Long-term memory is essential for students who need to master large amounts of knowledge.
第三部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分 30 分)
第一节(共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空
白处的最佳选项。
This past summer I set out on a journey to Canada's Arctic.When I left I was wrapped in a
blanket of uncertainty and__ 41__.
But when I first met the group members,I knew I didn't have anything to__42 __.The group
was amazingly__43__ and I was soon part of a big family boarding on an amazing __44__!
Approaching the Arctic,I was repeatedly__45__with its unusual largeness and its
beauty.There I flew over vast glaciers(冰河)and stood on the frozen Arctic Ocean,__46__ polar
bears walk in search of seal holes,and__47 __wait for a meal.
However,I also learned the pollutants carried by ocean from far away have a negative
__48__on all Arctic inhabitants.And global warming has put polar bears at__49__because a
warmer climate means that they have a shorter time to__50__ seals on the ice.
During the journey,I talked with some__51__scientists about the ruins of homes once
__52__ by the ancient Thule people.I made good friends with people from different parts of
world.
The Arctic is a land of incredible beauty which__53__to be preserved.I've learned why it
is so important to__54__it.This journey has made me more determined to try to__55__that I do
not leave negative or harmful footprints on either Earth or its people.
41.A.relief B anxiety C.pride D.argument
42.A.put up B.prepare for C.give up D.worry about
43.A.easy-going B well-behaved C.sensitive D.flexible
44.A.failure B.performance C.adventure D.conflict
45.A.embarrassed B.ashamed C.amused D.shocked
46.A.watching B.organizing C.noticing D.guessing
47.A.painfully B.patiently C.unconsciously D.doubtfully
48.A.source B.reaction C.effect D.development
49.A.rest B.ease C.peace D.risk
50.A.hunt B.explore C.help D.meet
51.A.demanding B.learned C.modest D.rigid
52.A.classified B.decorated C.confused D.occupied
53.A.promises. B.benefits C.deserves D.intends
54.A.take care of B.make use of C.run out of D.became tired of
55.A.deny B.ensure C.argue D.overlook
第二节(共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Dujiangyan Dam,45km north of Chengdu,an ancient technological wonder of the country,
was originally constructed around 256 BC by the State of Qin__56__an irrigation(灌溉) and
flood control system as well as a remarkable example of ancient engineering skill.Due to the
success of the project,the dam__57__(automatic)changes the water flow of the Min River and
channels it into irrigation.For more than 2,000 years,the dam__58__(continue)to make the most
of the water protection works.
During the Warring States period,__59__troubled people living along the banks of Min
River was the annual flooding.__60__(aid)by thousands of local people, Qin governor and
irrigation engineer Li Bing investigated the problem thoroughly and led a team__61__
(construct)a levee(河堤)to redirect a portion of river's flow.Then they cut a channel through
Mount Yulei to discharge the extra water.With the system finished,no more floods__62__
(occur). What's more,it made Sichuan one of the most productive agricultural regions in China
__63__the redirected water from the Min River could be used for irrigation.If you visit
Dujiangyan,you will see__64__unusual construction that resembles a fish's mouth.This famous
attraction, Yuzui,together with two other important parts,namely,Feishayan and Baopingkou,
__65__(be)designed initially to control the water flow throughout the year.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分 40 分)
第一节(满分 15 分)
假定你是李华，你的外国朋友 Paul 来你校做交换生。他对于校园里学生统一穿校服
的现象不理解，给你发来邮件询问此事，并咨询他是否也必须穿校服。请你给他回一封