四川省南充市仪陇县重点中学校2023-2024学年高二上学期12月第二次月考英语试题
一、第一部分 听力，第一节听下面 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。（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分）
1． What is the second class?
A．Math. B．Chinese. C．English.
2． What does the woman want to do in the park?
A．Go fishing. B．See animals. C．Go boating.
3． What is the woman going to do this afternoon?
A．Pick up Jean.
B．Go to the library.
C．Drive Jason to the airport.
4． What was wrong with Jack?
A．He was late for work.
B．He was in hospital.
C．He had a fever.
5． What do the woman's family members do to help the environment?
A．They use fewer plastic bags.
B．They don't drive cars.
C．They waste less food.
二、第一部分 听力，第二节听下面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。（共15小题，每小题15分，满分22.5分)
 听录音，回答问题。
6．What is most probably the woman?
A．A mechanic. B．A saleswoman. C．A student.
7．What will the woman do next?
A．Ask Jim for help.
B．Use the man's laptop.
C．Buy a new computer.
 听录音，回答问题。
8．Why does the woman look sad?
A．She has failed her law exam.
B．She can't make progress in dancing.
C．Her father doesn't allow her to be a dancer.
9．What does the man suggest the woman do?
A．Listen to her father.
B．Hold on to her dream.
C．Try to understand her father.
 听录音，回答问题。
10．What color tie does the woman think matches the man's jacket?
A．Green. B．Black. C．Red.
11．Why doesn't the woman like high heels?
A．They aren't beautiful.
B．They are uncomfortable to wear.
C．They don't match the dress.
12．What does the man mean in the end?
A．He knows a cafe nearby.
B．He can't decide what to buy.
C．He doesn't want to go on shopping.
 听录音，回答问题。
13．How many people will go to Keswick with the woman?
A．6. B．5. C．4.
14．When will the woman go boating?
A．On Friday. B．On Saturday. C．On Sunday.
15．Where will the woman stay in Keswick?
A．In a country hotel.
B．In a five-star hotel.
C．In a camp.
16．What will the man do on the weekend?
A．Visit his aunt. B．Watch TV. C．Do some shopping.
 听录音，回答问题。
17．What was the speaker's final destination?
A．Paris. B．Vienna. C．Moscow.
18．How late did the speaker originally think she woke up?
A．30 minutes. B．10 minutes. C．5 minutes.
19．What was in the backpack?
A．A pen and a notebook.
B．Her glasses.
C．A ticket.
20．How did the speaker feel in the end?
A．Angry. B．Happy. C．Worried.
三、第二部分 阅读理解，第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中选出最佳选项（共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分）
 阅读理解
China is one of the world's ancient civilizations and has the earliest outstanding bronze casting
technology. Here we've created a list of 4 museums where you can gain an in - depth understanding of Chinese bronze.
Sanxingdui Museum
Address: Sanxingdui Ruin Site, 133 Xian Road, Guanghan, Deyang, Sichuan province
Hours: Comprehensive Gallery (the first exhibition hall): 8:30-18:00; Bronze Gallery (the second exhibition hall): 8:30-18:30. Last tickets sold at 17:00. Closed on the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve
Ticket booking: 0838-5651526
General admission: Gallery ticket 80 yuan
Note: Children shorter than 1.2m (including 1.2m) can visit the gallery free of charge. The ticket must be used on the day it is sold and authorizes one visit to each gallery.
National Museum of China
Address: East side of Tian'anmen Square, Dongcheng district, Beijing
Hours: 8:30-17:00 (no entry after 16:30)
General admission: Free (passport required for entry), Closed Mondays (except for national holidays)
E - mail: webmaster@chnmuseum. cn
Shanghai Museum
Address: 201 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu district, Shanghai
Hours: 9:00-17:00 (no entry after 16:00), Closed Mondays (except for national holidays)
E - mail: webmaster@shanghai-museum. org
General admission: free (a max of 8, 000 admitted daily)
Hunan Museum
Address: 50 Dongfeng Road, Changsha, Hunan province
Hours: 9:00-17:00 (no entry after 16:00), Closed Mondays (except for national holidays) and the eve of Chinese New Year
Tel: (+86-731) 8415833, 84475933
E - mail: web@hnmuseum. com
General admission: Free (passport required for entry)
21．Which museum should you choose for your family to visit next Monday?
A．Sanxingdui Museum B．Hunan Museum
C．Shanghai Museum D．National Museum of China
22．What do these museums in this passage have in common?
A．They are all free of charge.
B．They all set a deadline for entry.
C．They all lie in the south of China.
D．They can all be available through E-mail.
23．In which part of a newspaper can you most probably read this passage?
A．Science B．Today's News
C．Entertainment D．History and Culture
 阅读理解
At 74 James Patterson has sold more than 425 million copies of his 200 novels globally, making him one of the highest paid authors in the world. "I do not work for a living. I play for a living. I love doing it, " Patterson tells CNBC. But Patterson's road to success didn't happen overnight. He started writing as a side hustle and he faced a lot of rejection before getting his first book published. Patterson grew up in the woods in Newburgh, New York with an insurance salesman father and a schoolteacher mother. Despite having dreams of being a writer, the idea "always seemedpresumptuous", Patterson says. But after reading books by James Joyce, "it really turned me on to reading, and then I started writing, " he says.
After college, Patterson got his first job as a junior copy writer at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. While climbing the corporate ladder, Patterson wrote his first book, The Thomas Berryman Number in the mid-70s. The book "got turned down by 31 publishers", Patterson says. But after it was finally published in 1976, "then it won an Edgar Award for best first novel. " The Edgar Award, which is named after Edgar Alan Poe, honors the best writers in mystery fiction and non-fiction. Despite publishing his first book at age 26, Patterson didn't have a bestseller until he was 40.
"It wasn't like all of a sudden, " he says. In fact, Patterson kept his day job for decades and got promoted to CEO of J. Walter Thompson in 1988. During that time, Patterson says he would read well over 100 books a year to help spark his creativity. "I have a huge imagination and I'm constantly asking, what about this? What about that?" he says.
Despite his success, Patterson says he doesn't like to give advice, especially about writing. But he credits his own success to his work ethic and passion. "I also don't take myself too seriously, " he says. "Yeah, I sell a lot of books, so what?"
24．What do we know about James Patterson?
A．He produced a bestseller when he was 26.
B．He read a lot of books to get source of inspiration.
C．He worked as a full-time writer when he was young.
D．He got inspiration for his first book when climbing a ladder.
25．What does the underlined word "presumptuous" mean in paragraph 2?
A．Unrealistic. B．Contradictory. C．Imaginative. D．Inspiring.
26．What can we infer about James Patterson from the last paragraph?
A．He has sold a lot of books.
B．He doesn't take his job seriously.
C．He values positive attitudes to work.
D．He is unwilling to give advice to readers.
27．Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A．The Secret to Career Success
B．A Tough Road to a Bestseller Writer
C．An Edgar Award Winner
D．A Not-to-be-missed Fiction
 阅读理解
Each year, backed up by a growing anti-consumerist movement, people are using the holiday season to call on us all to shop less.
Driven by concerns about resource exhaustion, over recent years environmentalists have increasingly turned their sight on our "consumer culture", with Groups such as The Story of Stuff and Buy Nothing New Day growing as a movement that increasingly blames all our ills on our desire to shop.
We clearly have a growing resource problem. The products we make, buy and use are often linked to the destruction of our waterways, biodiversity, climate and the land on which millions of people live, but to blame these issues on Christmas shoppers is misguided, and puts us in the old trap of blaming individuals for what is a systematic problem.
While we complain about environmental destruction over Christmas, environmentalists often forget what the holiday season actually means for many people. In fact, for most, rather than an add-on to an already heavy shopping year, Christmas is likely the only time of year they have the opportunity to spend on friends and family, or even just to buy the necessities needed for modern life.
This is particularly true for Boxing Day, often laughed at by anti-consumerists the most. While we may look down on the queues in front of the shops, for many, those sales provide the chance to buy things they've needed all year. As journalist Leigh Phillips argues, "This is one of the few times of the year that people can even hope to afford such ‘luxuries', the Christmas presents their kids are asking for, or just an appliance that works. "
Indeed, the richest 7% of people are responsible for 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. This becomes particularly harmful when you take into account of our consumption "problem" anyway.
Why are environmentalists attacking these individuals, while ignoring people like Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has his own £ 1.5bn yacht with a missile defence system?
Anyway, anti-consumerism has become a movement of wealthy people talking down to the working class about their life choice, while ignoring the real cause of our environmental problem. It is no wonder no one is changing their behaviour—or that environmental destruction continues without becoming any less severe.
28．What can be inferred about the environmentalist movement from Paragraphs 2 and 3?
A．It has targeted the wrong persons.
B．It has achieved its intended purposes.
C．It has solved the environmental problems.
D．It has persuaded consumers not to shop any more.
29．What does Leigh Phillips think of Boxing Day?
A．A trap for consumers.
B．A tough problem to deal with.
C．A precious shopping opportunity.
D．A positive contribution to the economy.
30．For what purpose is Roman Abramovich mentioned in the text?
A．To show how rich he is.
B．To announce he is a Russian.
C．To present his contributions to the environment.