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四会市华侨中学2024学年度第二学期期中考试高一年级英语科试题
(满分：135分　建议用时：120分钟)
第二部分　阅读(40分)
第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分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。
A
The National Gallery
Description:
The National Gallery is the British national art museum built on the north side of European art ranging from 13th-century religious paintings to more modern ones by Renoir and Van Gogh. The older collections of the gallery are reached through the main entrance while the more modern works in the East Wing are most easily reached from Trafalgar Square by a ground floor entrance.
Layout:
The modern Sainsbury Wing on the western side of the building houses 13th-to15th-century paintings, and artists include Duccio, Uccello, Van Eyck, Lippi, Mantegna, Botticelli and Memling.
The main West Wing houses 16th-century paintings, and artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Cranach, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bruegel, Bronzino, Titan and Veronese.
The North Wing houses 17th-century paintings, and artists include Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Claude and Vermeer.
The East Wing houses 18th-to early 20th-century paintings, and artists include Canaletto, Goya, Turner, Constable, Renoir and Van Gogh
Opening Hours:
The Gallery is open every day from 10am to 6pm (Fridays 10anm to 9pm) and is free, but charges apply to some special exhibitions.
Getting There:
Nearest underground stations: Charing Cross (2-minute walk), Leicester Square (3-minute walk), Embankment (7-minute walk), and Piccadilly Circus (8-minute walk).
16. In which century’s collection can you see religious paintings
A. The 13th B. The 17th C. The 18th D. The 20th
17. Where are Leonardo da Vinci’s works shown
A. In the East Wing. B. In the main West Wing.
C. In the Sainsbury Wing. D. In the North Wing.
18. Which underground station is closest to the National Gallery
A. Piccadilly Circus.
B. Leicester Square.
C. Embankment.
D. Charing Cross.
B
While famous foreign architects are invited to lead the designs of landmark buildings in China such as the new CCTV tower and the National Center for the Performing Arts, many excellent Chinese architects are making great efforts to take the center stage.
Their efforts have been proven fruitful. Wang Shu, a 49-year-old Chinese architect, won the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize — which is often referred to as the Nobel Prize in architecture — on February 28. He is the first Chinese citizen to win this award.
Wang serves as head of the Architecture Department at the China Academy of Art (CAA). His office is located at the Xiangshan campus(校园) of the university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Many buildings on the campus are his original creations.
The style of the campus is quite different from that of most Chinese universities. Many visitors were amazed by the complex architectural space and abundant building types. The curves(曲线) of the buildings perfectly match the rise and fall of hills, forming a unique view.
Wang collected more than 7 million abandoned bricks of different ages. He asked the workers to use traditional techniques to make the bricks into walls, roofs and corridors. This creation attracted a lot of attention thanks to its mixture of modern and traditional Chinese elements(元素).
Wang’s works show a deep understanding of modern architecture and a good knowledge of traditions. Through such a balance, he had created a new type of Chinese architecture, said Tadao Ando, the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
Wang believes traditions should not be sealed in glass boxes at museums. "That is only evidence that traditions once existed," he said.
"Many Chinese people have a misunderstanding of traditions. They think tradition means old things from the past. In fact, tradition also refers to the things that have been developing and that are still being created, " he said.
"Today, many Chinese people are learning Western styles and theories rather than focusing on Chinese traditions. Many people tend to talk about traditions without knowing what they really are, " said Wang.[
The study of traditions should be combined with practice. Otherwise, the recreation of traditions would be artificial and empty, he said.
19. Wang’s winning of the prize means that Chinese architects are ___________.
A. following the latest world trend
B. getting international recognition
C. working harder than ever before
D. relying on foreign architects
20. What impressed visitors to the CAA Xiangshan campus most
A. Its hilly environment. B. Its large size.
C. Its unique style. D. Its diverse functions.
21. What made Wang’s architectural design a success
A. The mixture of different shapes.[
B. The balance of East and West.
C. The use of popular techniques.
D. The harmony of old and new.
22. What should we do about Chinese traditions according to Wang
A. Spread them to the world. B. Preserve them at museums.
C. Teach them in universities. D. Recreate them in practice.
C
Samuel Osmond is a 19-year-old law student from Cornwall, England. He never studied the piano. However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just a few minutes after he hears them. He learns a piece of music by listening to it in parts. Then he thinks about the notes in his head. Two years ago, he played his first piece Moonlight Sonata（奏鸣曲）by Beethoven. He surprised everyone around him.
Amazed that he remembered this long and difficult piece of music and played it perfectly, his teachers say Samuel is unbelievable .They say his ability is very rare, but Samuel doesn’t even realize that what he can do is special. Samuel wanted to become a lawyer as it was the wish of his parents, but music teachers told him he should study music instead. Now, he studies law and music.
Samuel can’t understand why everyone is so surprised. “I grew up with music. My mother played the piano and my father played the guitar. About two years ago, I suddenly decided to start playing the piano, without being able to read music and without having any lessons. It comes easily to me—I hear the notes and can bear them in mind—each and every note,” says Samuel.
Recently, Samuel performed a piece during a special event at his college. The piece had more than a thousand notes. The audience was impressed by his amazing performance. He is now learning a piece that is so difficult that many professional pianists can’t play it. Samuel says confidently,” It’s all about super memory — I guess I have that gift.”
However, Samuel’s ability to remember things doesn’t stop with music. His family says that even when he was a young boy, Samuel heard someone read a story, and then he could retell the story word for word.
Samuel is still only a teenager. He doesn’t know what he wants to do in the future. For now, he is just happy to play beautiful music and continue his studies.
23. What is special about Samuel Osmond
A. He has a gift for writing music.
B. He can write down the note he hears.
C. He is a top student at the law school.
D. He can play the musical piece he hears.
24. What can we learn from Paragraph 2
A. Samuel chose law against the wish of his parents.
B. Samuel planned to be a lawyer rather than a musician.
C. Samuel thinks of himself as a man of great musical ability.
D. Samuel studies law and music on the advice of his teachers.
25. Everyone around Samuel was surprised because he _________.
A. received a good early education in music
B. played the guitar and the piano perfectly
C. could play the piano without reading music
D. could play the guitar better than his father
26. What can we infer about Samuel in Paragraph 4
A. He became famous during a special event at his college.
B. He is proud of his ability to remember things accurately.
C. He plays the piano better than many professional pianists.
D. He impressed the audience by playing all the musical pieces.
27. Which of the following is the best title of the passage
A. The Qualities of a Musician
B. The Story of a Musical Talent
C. The Importance of Early Education
D. The Relationship between Memory and Music
D
Some of the world’s most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying(联合) voice across cultures.
Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.
It’s Jason Moran’s job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture.
“Jazz seems like it’s not really a part of the American appetite,” Moran tells National Public Radio’s reporter Neal Conan. “What I’m hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and write anymore. It’s actually color, and it’s actually digital.”
Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. “The music can’t be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same,” says Moran.
Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller’s music for a dance party, “Just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music,” says Moran. “For me, it’s the recontextualization. In music, where does the emotion(情感) lie Are we, as humans, gaining any insight(感悟) on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,” says Moran, “so I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.”
28．Why did UNESCO set April 30 as International Jazz Day
A．To remember the birth of jazz.
B．To protect cultural diversity.
C．To encourage people to study music.
D．To recognize the value of jazz.
29．What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 3 refer to
A．Jazz becoming more accessible.
B．The production of jazz growing faster.
C．Jazz being less popular with the young.
D．The jazz audience becoming larger.
30．What can we infer about Moran’s opinion on jazz
A．It will disappear gradually.
B．It remains black and white.
C．It should keep up with the times.
D．It changes every 50 years.
第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
阅读下面短文，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。
Color is fundamental in home design – something you’ll always have in every room. A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating rooms you’ll love to live in. Do you want a room that’s full of life Professional Or are you just looking for a place to relax after a long day 31 , color is the key to making a room feel the way you want it to feel.
Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point. 32 , they can get a little complex. But good news is that there’re really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.
33 . They’re the little spots of color like throw pillows, mirrors and baskets that most of us use to add visual interest to our rooms. Less tiring than painting your walls and less expensive than buying a colorful sofa, small color choices bring with them the significant benefit of being easily changeable.
Medium color choices are generally furniture pieces such as sofas, dinner tables or bookshelves. 34 . They require a bigger commitment than smaller ones, and they have a more powerful effect on the feeling of a space.
The large color decisions in your rooms concern the walls, ceilings, and floors. Whether you’re looking at wallpaper or paint, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant. 35 .
A. While all of them are useful
B. Whatever you’re looking for
C. If you’re experimenting with a color
D. Small color choices are the ones we’re most familiar with
E. It’s not really a good idea to use too many small color pieces
F. So it pays to be sure, because you want to get it right the first time
G. Color choices in this range are a step up from the small ones in two major ways
第三部分 完形填空(30分)
The train had been long delayed. Running out of ____36____, Andy put down his book and looked out. He found the____37____at once: it was raining hard.
He lay down and fell asleep but was soon woken up by a woman. She handed him his bag and ____38____ that it had slipped to the floor. He gratefully took it back and opened it,____39____ to see his mother’s scarf and some sandwiches inside.
Andy’s thoughts drifted(飘)to when he was ____40____. His mother had insisted on putting her scarf in. “If it rains, it may get cold.” He remembered feeling____41____and had taken it out. But it was still here.
____42____ Andy realized he was burning with fever. Feeling helpless, he called his mum. “Take a ____43____I have put in medicine, just____44___,” she suggested. Touched by his mother’s____45_____he took the medicine and soon fell deep asleep in the____46___of the scarf.
Andy woke up later feeling much better. Then he noticed the woman,who’d_____47_____him earlier, _____48_____ holding a baby in her arms, both shaking. Their clothes did little against the cold wind.
Without thinking twice, Andy wrapped his mother’s scarf around the baby. To his _____49_____, the child soon fell asleep in the love of not one, but two___50_____.
36. A. luck B. patience C. time D. energy
37. A. train B. truth C. cause D. notice
38. A. insisted B. explained C. apologized D. admitted
39. A. surprised B. ready C. thankful D. expecting
40. A. checking B. leaving C. planning D. packing
41. A. hurt B. annoyed C. ashamed D. puzzled
42. A. Lately B. Finally C. Suddenly D. Instantly
43. A. look B. pill C. rest D. sandwich
44. A. for safety B. on purpose C. in case D. by accident
45. A. calmness B. confidence C. comfort D. care
46. A. warmth B. memory C. smell D. touch
47. A. helped B. pleased C. disturbed D. greeted
48. A. comfortably B. safely C. gently D. tightly
49. A. relief B. amazement C. mind D. advantage
50. A. arms B. scarfs C. passengers D. mothers
语法填空(15分)
Jianbing is a kind of street food in China. Sellers usually prepare the food on round iron hotplates(铁烤盘).
51________(watch) the process of creating Jianbing is a fun experience. It is almost as good as 52________(actual) eating one. The cook usually puts some batter(面糊)on the hotplate, and spreads it using a flat stick. Then the pancake will be topped with different fillings. 53________you don’t want some of them, just say so! The freedom to choose fillings makes it easy to satisfy the tastes of different 54________(customer). But this food is so popular that you often have to wait in line55 ________your turn to be served.
Like some other food in China, Jianbing has a long history. It’s commonly believed that this snack 56________(create) thousands of years ago in Shangdong Province 57________pancakes and pies are important foods. And according to some records, Zhuge Liang helped with the invention of Jianbing. One time, after his soldiers lost cookers, he ordered the cooks_58_______(make)some batter and spread it on shields(盾牌) over the fire. The soldiers later found the food 59________ (taste), which made them energetic. As a result, Jianbing was passed down through generations. Today, the snacks continues its60________ (popular) in many parts of the world.
第五部分 写作(35分)
第三节　书面表达(20分)
假定你是李华, 你校英文报“外国文化”栏目拟刊登介绍美国节日风俗和中学生生活的短文。请给美国朋友彼得写信约稿,
要点如下:
1. 栏目介绍;
2. 稿件内容;
3. 稿件长度: 约 400 词;
4. 交稿日期: 6 月 28 日前。

注意: 1. 词数 100 左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3. 开头语已为你写好。
Dear Peter,
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答案
阅读理解
16-18 DBA
19-22BCDD
23-26 DBBB
27-30 DACA
31-35 BADGF
完形填空。
36-40 BCBAD
41-45BCBCD
46-50 AADAD
语法填空。
51. Watching 52. actually 53. If/When 54. customers 55. for 56.was created 57.where 58.to make 59.tasty 60.popularity
Yours，
Li Hua
Dear Peter,
How are you doing I’m writing to ask if you could contribute a short article for the “Foreign Cultures” column of our school’s English newspaper.
This column aims to introduce international customs and student life to our readers. We would be delighted if you could write about American festival traditions or the daily life of high school students there. Your first-hand experience would make the article truly engaging and authentic.
The article should be around 400 words. Please submit it by June 28th so we have enough time for editing and layout.
We believe your writing would be a valuable addition to our column. Thank you in advance, and I’m looking forward to your reply!
Best wishes,
Li Hua

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