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北京市第六十六中学2023—2024学年第二学期第三次质量检测
高二英语
2024.06
试卷说明： 1．本试卷共五道大题，共9页。 2．卷面满分100分，考试时间90分钟。 3．试题答案一律在答题纸上作答，在试卷上作答无效。
Ⅰ．听力理解（共三节，27分）
（一）听后选择（共14小题；每小题1.5分，共21分）
第一节，听下面四段对话，每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的三个选项中选出最佳选项。听对话前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读每小题。听完后，每小题将有5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话你将听一遍。
1．What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers
A．Husband and wife. B．Teacher and student. C．Classmates.
2．What time does the TV series begin
A．At 8:00. B．At 8:30. C．At 9:00.
3．Where does this conversation probably take place
A．In a shop. B．In a bank. C．In a restaurant.
4．How would the man like to make the trip
A．By air. B．By car. C．On foot.
第二节，听下面五段对话或独白，每段对话或独白后有两道小题，从每题所给的三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读每小题。听完后，每小题将有5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白你将听两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第5至第6小题。现在，你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两道小题。
5．What test are the speakers going to take on Friday
A．Science. B．History. C．Music.
6．Why does the woman speaker make the phone call
A．To discuss her maths problems.
B．To seek help with her English reading.
C．To ask about the homework for tomorrow.
听下面一段对话，回答第7至第8小题。现在，你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两道小题。
7．What does the man think is the cause of the woman’s illness
A．Last night’s dinner. B．The hot weather. C．Bottled water.
8．What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers
A．Husband and wife. B．Doctor and patient. C．Guest and receptionist.
听下面一段对话，回答第9至第10小题。现在，你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两道小题。
9．What is the man doing
A．Making an invitation. B．Offering information. C．Asking for permission.
10．What time is the woman going to see the dentist this Saturday
A．10:30 am. B．12:30 pm. C．4:30 pm.
听下面一段对话，回答第11至第12小题。现在，你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两道小题。
11．What is the attitude of the woman
A．Very cooperative. B．Very surprised. C．Very angry.
12．What is the conversation mainly about
A．Checking out some facts. B．Complaining of the noise. C．Asking some questions.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至第14小题。现在，你有10秒钟的时间阅读这两道小题。
13．How many people died on the road in South Africa every year
A．Nearly 1, 300. B．Nearly 400. C．Nearly 14, 000.
14．What does Gary Ronal think a government should do next
A．Ban drunk driving. B．Educate the general public. C．Teach road safety at school.
（二）听后记录（共4小题；每小题1.5分，共6分）
听两遍短文，根据所听内容和提示，将所缺的关键信息填写在相应的位置上，每空只需填写一个词。现在，你有1分钟的时间浏览提示信息。
An Introduction to Forest Adventure
Way to get to the houses Driving over the 15 , walking or cycling.
Place to hire a bike Bicycle store
Things for fun ·At the east end of the lake: swimming pools and shops. ·At the west end of the lake: 16 and skateboarding areas. ·On the island: a barbecue 17 a week. ·Through the forest: a(n) 18 walk.
II．完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
One Mother to Another
On Wednesday evening, our daughter, who was at a boarding school over 200 kilometers away, told us that she had lost her phone when she took part in an activity off campus. We realized that we had little chance of finding it.
The next morning, my phone beeped (哔哔响) loudly. A kind voice announced that she had something that belonged to my daughter. I 19 that I lived a three-hour drive away, and told her I would ask a friend to fetch the phone. My daughter had written my number on the inside of her phone’s case—good thinking!
After contacting the people I know who lived near the school, I was out of 20 —no one could go and 21 the phone, not surprisingly as it was the working day and everyone was busy. I decided to ask the lady to post the phone to my daughter. But when I sent her a text to ask if this would be OK, she replied, “We will 22 it and we’re going to drive down to the boarding school tonight.” To my 23 , this wonderful couple, who had already spent a busy day at work, was making a round trip on the night, 24 for returning a phone to a complete stranger. How touching it was!
I gave them directions and they 25 the phone into the hands of my daughter at her boarding house. The only word of an explanation was, “I’ve got children of my own, and I know how a mother 26 .”
We had thought that the chance of getting back the phone was 27 , but we got it back in such a short time. It was a wonderful reminder of the good in the world and how the actions of one person can 28 the world to another.
19．A．suggested B．reported C．explained D．argued
20．A．date B．luck C．work D．control
21．A．pick up B．carry out C．hand in D．give away
22．A．find B．show C．miss D．take
23．A．regret B．surprise C．amusement D．disappointment
24．A．especially B．certainly C．definitely D．probably
25．A．conducted B．arranged C．delivered D．identified
26．A．doubts B．interests C．predicts D．worries
27．A．free B．slim C．hard D．fair
28．A．tell B．face C．mean D．join
Ⅲ．阅读理解（共两节，40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Stories Behind Famous Company Names
Inventor Caleb Bradham had originally wanted to be a doctor but started working in a pharmacy when he returned home to North Carolina. In 1893, he made up what he first called “Brad’s Drink,” a mix of water, sugar, caramel, lemon oil, nutmeg, and other flavors. Five years later, he renamed it Pepsi-Cola. He claimed the drink could help with digestion (消化), or dyspepsia, the term from which Bradham adapted the name Pepsi.
This luxury car maker combined elements from the Ford and Oldsmobile companies when it was started in 1902 and later became known for its innovation and high quality. The company was. named after the French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac, who founded the city of Detroit in 1701.
Company co-founder Gordon Bowker has said that while brainstorming names, someone brought out a map that featured the old mining town of Starbo. That may have led him to think of Starbuck, the first mate in Herman Melville’s famous novel, Moby Dick. Not only the company name but also the origin of its logo has aroused great curiosity.
The inventor of Rolex, Hans Wilsdorf, was looking to make an elegant, yet precise, wristwatch. He wanted a name that was easy to say, worked in different languages, and looked good on the watches. He settled on Rolex in 1908.
29．Which company name has a close relationship with literature
A．Pepsi. B．Cadillac. C．Starbucks. D．Rolex.
30．Which of the following statements is True
A．Caleb Bradham aimed to cure dyspepsia with Pepsi.
B．Hans Wilsdorf intended Rolex to be universally accepted.
C．Cadillac was named after the founding father of the company.
D．Starbucks was used due to the co-founder’s love for his hometown.
31．From the passage, we can learn that ______.
A．a famous company name is easy to spell
B．a special story can make a company famous
C．a company name usually has a special meaning in it
D．a company name is related to the founder’s profession
B
When I was small, my mother and I would walk to our local library in Franklin Square. As we didn’t always have access to a reliable car, walking hand in hand was the most convenient way to get anywhere. It was at story time for children that both my mother and I made lasting friendships.
Today, I am fortunate to live around the corner from the Cold Coast Public Library in Glen Head and a short walk to the Sea Cliff Children’s Library. My 8-month-old son, Colin, and I find ourselves in Sea Cliff several times a week, meeting and making friends. Well, that is what many people don’t understand—a library is more than books: it’s a community.
Sure, the library in Franklin Square was the place where I was introduced to Judy Blume novels. But it was also the place where I got my first email address in 1997. At the library, friends and I learned how to research colleges and search for scholarships on the Internet. The library was the place where we sometimes giggled (咯咯笑) too loudly, and where the librarians knew us by name. Their knowing our names wasn’t a bad thing. When I came home from my first term at Binghamton University, Mary LaRosa, the librarian at the Franklin Square library, offered me my first teaching job.
I now teach reading at Nassau Community College. My students are often amazed that they can check out books via their smartphones and virtually (虚拟地) visit a variety of Long Island libraries. The app used by Nassau and Suffolk county public libraries, as well as the college library, makes their homework easier by helping them find resources. Even though they can’t always easily visit their local libraries, the library is always with them.
32．Why does the author consider herself lucky today
A．She can walk with her mother hand in hand. B．She has access to a reliable car now.
C．She can giggle loudly at the library. D．She lives close to libraries.
33．The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 2 probably refer to ______.
A．socializing in a library B．reading books in a library
C．visiting a library with family members D．building parent-child friendship in a library
34．What is the author’s attitude to her students’ way of visiting libraries
A．Sympathetic. B．Favorable. C．Sceptical. D．Disapproving.
35．The author writes the passage mainly to ______.
A．recall the days of childhood in the libraries B．discuss the differences of the libraries
C．explain the changes of the libraries D．express her love for libraries
C
In some islands north of Scotland, head lice, which live on the hair or skin of people or animals, were a part of life. If the lice left their host, he became sick and feverish. Therefore, sick people had lice put in their hair intentionally. There was a method to their madness: As soon as the lice had settled in again, the patient improved. The story explains the confusion of cause and effect. If the lice leave the sick, it is because he has a fever and they simply get hot feet. When the fever breaks, they return. We may laugh at this story, but false causality misleads us practically every day.
Consider the headline: “Fact: Women Who Use Shampoo XYZ Every Day Have Stronger Hair.” This statement says very little—least of all, that the shampoo makes your hair stronger. It might simply be the other way round: Women with strong hair tend to use Shampoo XYZ—and perhaps that’s because it says “especially for thick hair” on the bottle.
A further example: Scientists found that long periods in the hospital did harm to patients. This was music to health insurers’ ears, who, of course, are keen to make stays as brief as possible. But, clearly, patients who are dismissed immediately are healthier than those who must stay on for treatment.
Recently I read that students get better grades at school if their homes contain a lot of books. This study was surely a shot in the arm for booksellers, but it is also an example of false causality. This simple truth is that educated parents tend to value their children’s education more than uneducated ones do. Plus, educated parents often have more books at home. In short, a dust-covered copy of War and Peace alone isn’t going to influence anyone’s grades; what counts is parents’ education levels, as well as their genes.
Another example of false causality was the supposed relationship between the birth rate and the numbers of stork (鹳) pairs in Germany. Both were in decline, and if you plot them on a graph, the two lines of development from 1965 to 1987 appeared almost the same. Does this mean the stork actually does bring babies Obviously not, since this was a purely accidental connection.
In conclusion: Connection is not causality. Take a closer look at linked events: Sometimes what is presented as the cause turns out to be the effect, or just the other way around. And sometimes there is no link at all—just like with the storks and babies.
36．Which is an example of false causality
A．Women with strong hair tend to use a certain shampoo.
B．Birth rate and the stork population are connected.
C．Longer periods in the hospital benefit patients.
D．Lice can make a person sick and feverish.
37．The underlined phrase “a shot in the arm” in Paragraph 4 means ______.
A．pain B．defeat C．guidance D．encouragement
38．According to the author, students get better grades probably because ______.
A．their homes are full of books B．they have read War and Peace
C．their educated parents value education D．their parents are successful booksellers
39．It can be concluded from the passage that ______.
A．connections are pure accidents B．cause and effect are interdependent
C．connections are mostly cause and effect D．linked events may turn out to be unrelated
D
Would you rather be an impressive employee in an ordinary firm, or land a role at the most well-known company in your industry
The answer to that question might seem highly personal, based on factors like whether or not you are a competitive person and how much you enjoy a challenge. In fact, there’s another strong factor at play: People from different cultures react very differently to that question. The psychologists from the University of Michigan asked people theoretical questions about the decisions they take. Specifically, the researchers compared people with East Asian backgrounds and European American backgrounds. They found that Americans are much more likely to favor being a big fish in a small pond. East Asians, and specifically Chinese people, are much more likely than Americans to lean towards being a smaller fish in a bigger pond.
Researchers first asked 270 students at a large American university whether they would rather be a “big fish in a small pond” or the opposite. Of the students with East Asian American backgrounds, three quarters said they’d rather be a small fish, compared with just under 60% of students with European American backgrounds who said the same.
The researchers then compared American and Chinese adults. They asked the participants whether they would rather attend a top university but perform below average, and whether they would rather work for a top global company but do less well in comparison to their peers. Over half the Chinese adults chose the famous university, compared with just a third of Americans. In the case of the firms, well over half of people from both groups chose to do better at a less well-known firm, but Chinese people were still more likely to choose being a “small fish” than were Americans.
The final experiment sought to discover how American and Chinese people made judgments about whether they were succeeding. They found that Chinese people were more likely to compare their performance to the performance of people in other groups. Americans, meanwhile, were more likely to compare themselves to people within the same group, to judge whether or not they were doing well.
In East Asian cultures, it’s “not enough that you know you’re doing well in your school,” said Kaidi Wu, a PhD student in psychology who led the research. “It is much more important that other people—an outsider, a family relative, a future employer who has five seconds to glance through your resume—also recognize your academic excellence.”
America is the opposite: “Think about how many times themes like ‘You are your own person’ or ‘Stop worrying about what other people think’ course through song lyrics and self-help books,” Wu said, concluding: “The choices we make are the products of our culture.”
40．The psychologists from the University of Michigan find that ______.
A．Americans tend to achieve success in a big company
B．Chinese are likely to perform better in a big company
C．Americans prefer to shine in a relatively small company
D．Chinese are comfortable with working in a small company
41．The final experiment aims to ______.
A．compare different attitudes towards competition B．find different views about personal success
C．judge performances of different groups D．confirm which culture is better
42．A Chinese student will be more satisfied if he gains recognition from ______.
A．his neighbors B．his classmates C．his teachers D．his parents
43．According to Kaidi Wu, culture ______.
A．plays a key role in people’s choice making B．shows who we grow up to be in the future
C．is the most important factor behind success D．determines students’ academic performance
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共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。
How Smartphone Adds to Your Weight
Using a smartphone at mealtimes can lead to an expanding waistline. Researchers have found that men and women consumed 15% more calories when looking at their phones while eating. 44 The groundbreaking study suggests that staring at a phone screen may distract (分心) dinners from how much food and what they are actually eating.
“It may prevent the correct understanding of the brain over the amount of food ingested,” said researchers who filmed 62 volunteers eating alone.
The volunteers, aged 18 to 28, were divided in to three groups and invited to help themselves to a choice of food—ranging from healthy options to soft drinks and chocolate—until they were satisfied. 45 On average, the volunteers ate 535 calories without the distraction of a smartphone but 591 when using a mobile. Those in the sample who were classed as overweight ate 616 calories while using their phones. When in possession of their mobiles, the volunteers also consumed 10 percent more fatty foods. 46
“Smartphone use during a meal increased calorie and fat intake,” said Márcio Gilberto Zangeronimoa, a lead author of the study—carried out at the Federal University of Lavras in Brazil and University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. He added: “Tablets and smartphones have become the main ‘distracters’ during meals, even early in childhood. 47 A distracter prevents the brain correctly understanding the amount of food accepted.”
48 A more detailed analysis can be found in the journal.
A．They also eat more fatty food.
B．They also ate more when reading a magazine.
C．Distracted or hurried eating can add to weight gain.
D．The study is published in Physiology And Behavior.
E．It is important to pay attention to how this may impact food intakes.
F．Hunger isn’t the only thing that influences how much we eat during the day.
G．They were recorded eating with no distractions, using a smartphone or reading a magazine.
IV．语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
A
Frederick Law Olmsted was born on April 26, 1822, and grew to become nineteenth-century America’s number one landscape architect. To create the new park, partners and Olmsted removed nearly 5 million cubic yards of dirt, 49 (blow) up rock with 260 tons of gunpowder, and planted 270, 000 trees and shrubs. 50 (work) well into his seventies, Olmsted designed more parks and even an entire Chicago suburb, Riverside. Despite the bad eyesight, Olmsted led 51 (he) to create such beautiful places.
B
52 was needed was to make students aware of their learning process. On the surface, a class being taught by PEEL methods only differs from an ordinary class in being a little 53 (noisy), because more people are talking. But there are some meaningful changes. Students 54 (give) much more time to express their views, and teachers don’t make immediate judgment. The students are allowed 55 (decide) what is done in class and their own ideas are always respected. This draws their attention to the actual learning process, and they become responsible for their own progress.
C
Lydia gave all the money to some charities which help the children 56 parents are dead. She had worked there as a volunteer 57 the past three years. “I first visited the orphanage (孤儿院) when I was seven, and I felt very sad by what I saw.” However, some of her friends at university thought that maybe she 58 (make) the wrong decision. But she knew it was the right thing to do.
V．阅读表达（共4小题；第62、63题各1分，第64题2分，第65题4分，共8分）
阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。
How AI Will Impact the Future of Work and Life
AI, or artificial intelligence, seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. While I’ve been aware of this major trend in tech development for a while, I’ve noticed AI appearing more and more as one of the most in-demand areas of expertise for job seekers.
I’m sure that for many of us, the term “AI” conjures up sci-fi fantasies or fear about robots taking over the world. The depictions of AI in the media have run the gamut, and while no one can predict exactly how it will evolve in the future, the current trends and developments paint a much different picture of how AI will become part of our lives.
In reality, AI is already at work all around us, impacting everything from our search results, to our online dating prospects, to the way we shop. Data shows that the use of AI in many sectors of business has grown by 270% over the last four years.
But what will AI mean for the future of work As computers and technology have evolved, this has been one of the most pressing questions. As with many technological developments throughout history, the advancement of artificial intelligence has created fears that human workers will become obsolete.
The reality is probably a lot less dire, but maybe even more complicated.
What is AI
Before we do a deep div e on the ways in which AI will impact the future of work, it’s important to start simple: what is AI A straightforward definition from Britannica states that artificial intelligence is “the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.”
“AI” has become a catchall term to describe any advancements in computing, systems and technology in which computer programs can perform tasks or solve problems that require the kind of reason we associate with human intelligence, even learning from past processes.
This ability to learn is a key component of AI. Algorithms, like the dreaded Facebook algorithm that replaced all our friends with sponsored content, are often associated with AI.
AI will probably not make human workers obsolete, at least not for a long time.
59．According to the passage, what is “AI”
____________________________________________________________________________________________
60．How does AI affect our life
____________________________________________________________________________________________
61．Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
No one can predict exactly how AI will develop in the future, and the key component of it has not been found.
____________________________________________________________________________________________
62．Will AI replace the jobs of humans in the future Please give your reasons. (In about 40 words)
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