2022-2023學(xué)年湖南省益陽市安化縣高一（下）期末英語試卷

第二部分?閱讀第一節(jié)閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

• 1．The best festivals in August Edinburgh Festival Fringe
     The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world.In 2018，the festival lasted 25 days，including 55，000 performances of 3，548 shows in 317 places.The festival started in 1947 .For around three weeks in August，the city of Edinburgh welcomes a large number of artists and performers around the globe.Anyone can join in with the performance of their choice.
     Wilderness Festival
     Wilderness Festival takes place in one of the oldest woods in England.Taking place four days in nature，people will experience music，comedy，theatre，and dance from Sadler's Wells.All the campsites（野營(yíng)地） are made to order for different needs，including family camping.
     Notting Hill Carnival
     Notting Hill Carnival takes place on the streets of Notting Hill in London，England in each August lasting over two days.Attracting around one million people each year，it's one of the biggest street festivals in the world.Happening since 1966，Notting Hill Carnival is an essential cultural experience in London.
     La Tomatina
     Each year，the Valencian town of Bunol gets changed into a red mess as locals and tourists take to the streets and throw tomatoes at each other，all for fun.This tomato festival has been happening since 1945 and is held on the last Wednesday of August each year.
  
  （1）Which festival lasts the longest？

  
  A．Wilderness Festival.
  B．Notting Hill Carnival.
  C．La Tomatina.
  D．Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
  （2）What can people do during the Wilderness Festival？

  
  A．Buy handmade tents.
  B．Dance with famous stars.
  C．Experience wilderness adventures.
  D．Choose specially offered campsites.
  （3）What is special about La Tomatina？

  
  A．It is held for tourists.
  B．It is a food fight festival.
  C．It takes place on the streets.
  D．It limits the color of clothes.
  組卷：1引用：3難度：0.5

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• 2．    Toni Morrison was an American write who received the Nobel Prize in Literature.Her novels Beloved，Song of Solomon and others explored the way African-Americans search for freedom and identity in a country obsessed （受困擾的） with skin color.Morrison was nearly 40 when she published her first novel The Bluest Eye in 1970.The Nobel Prize committee described her writing as language itself，a language she wants to liberate from race.Her novels discussed America's past，focusing on black history and the effects of slavery and racism.She called her characters "the unfree at the heart of the democratic （民主的） experiment".
     In 1988，she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved，the story of a mother who kills her baby daughter rather than permit her to be born into slavery.It became a best-seller and was later made into a film with Oprah Winfrey.Many Americans admired her as the country's greatest living writer，including former President Barack Obama.
     She was born in 1931.She attended Howard University，an all-black university in Washington，D．C．At Howard，she read African，British and American literature，including writers William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf.After a short marriage，she became a single mother of two sons and worked as a book editor in New York.
     Several publishers rejected her first book The Bluest Eye but it impressed The New York Times' book critic John Leonard，who believed Morrison was an important new voice.He said her writing was "so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry".
     Morrison enjoyed her literary fame and was proud of her Nobel Prize won in 1993.
  
  （1）What can we learn about Toni Morrison from the text？

  
  A．She often communicated with William Faulkner.
  B．Morrison's novels concentrated on black history and racism.
  C．Morrison was about 40 when she received the Nobel Prize.
  D．She attended a university which accepted both white and black people.
  （2）Why does the mother in the novel Beloved kill her baby？

  
  A．It is born to be a disabled baby.
  B．She has some mental problems.
  C．She doesn't want it to become a slave.
  D．The family is too poor to raise the baby.
  （3）How did Barack Obama like Morrison？

  
  A．He couldn't think highly of her enough.
  B．He considered her as a common writer.
  C．He felt that her novels were not so fascinating.
  D．He believed her novels had some room for improvement.
  （4）Which book was rejected by several publishers but left a deep impression on John Leonard？

  
  A．Song of Solomon.
  B．Beloved.
  C．The New York Times.
  D．The Bluest Eye.
  組卷：1引用：1難度：0.5

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• 3．I was born and raised in England in a culture where privacy and"keeping yourself to yourself"were valued traditions.Speaking to strangers was not encouraged.People were most hospitable（好客的） and friendly—but only once they had been introduced to new people.
     However，I have been lucky enough to spend some time in both Italy and the US，where I found traditions of hospitality and politeness to be very different.
     I experienced Italian hospitality first-hand on a crowded railway carriage traveling，one afternoon，from Genoa to Florence.Sinking gratefully into an empty seat，I was berated（斥責(zé)） in rapid Italian by a gentleman who was returning to this seat—it had not been"spare"after all.I apologized in English，and got up to allow him back into the seat.The gentleman obviously had no understanding of the English language，but he，too，realized my genuine mistake.He smiled and gestured for me to remain in the seat，and he himself remained standing in the corridor for the rest of the journey.The other passengers of the carriage smiled and nodded at me and made me feel quite welcome amongst them.I feel that if this had been in England，a foreigner who made a mistake would not always be so kindly treated.
     Transport was also obvious in the differences I noticed between English and American culture.I flew to New York on a plane with mainly English passengers.We sat together in near silence.Nobody spoke to me nor，as I expected，to anyone else they did not know.They felt it was not polite to disturb someone else's privacy.However，when I traveled across the United States，whether by plane or Greyhound bus，I was never short of conversation.Conversation was going on all around me and whoever sat next to me was happy to introduce themselves and ask me about myself，which was usually a pleasant way to kill time.They obviously felt it would have been rude not to speak to another person，whether they were strangers or not.
  
  （1）What do we know about the passengers of the carriage when the author was travelling in Italy？

  
  A．They were all on the side of the gentleman.
  B．They all laughed at the author for this mistake.
  C．They all showed their understanding of the author's mistake.
  D．They would not bear a mistake like the author's in public.
  （2）According to the last paragraph，English passengers sat in near silence because

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  A．they were too tired to speak
  B．they are short of topics to talk about
  C．they were all strangers to each other
  D．privacy was a valued tradition in England
  （3）The purpose of the author is to tell us

  .
  A．his traveling experiences
  B．how to adapt ourselves to a new culture
  C．the culture shock he experienced in Italy and the US
  D．cultural differences in hospitality and politeness
  （4）What is the author's attitude towards American's traditions of hospitality and politeness？

  
  A．Approving.
  B．Confused.
  C．Negative.
  D．Disapproving.
  組卷：4引用：4難度：0.5

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第四部分?寫作第一節(jié)

• 8．假如你是李華，你的外國(guó)網(wǎng)友Jack沉迷于手機(jī)游戲不能自拔，寫信向你求助，請(qǐng)你給他回一封電子郵件。內(nèi)容包括：
  （1）表示理解與關(guān)心；
  （2）分析手機(jī)游戲可能存在的不良影響；
  （3）提出具體建議。
  注意：addiction to 對(duì)...的癮
  （4）詞數(shù)80左右；
  （5）可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，使行文連貫；
  （6）開頭和結(jié)尾已給出，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。
  Dear Jack，
                                    
     Best wishes!
  Yours，
  Li Hua
  組卷：3引用：3難度：0.5

  解析

第二節(jié)閱讀下面材料，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容和所給段落開頭語續(xù)寫兩段，使之構(gòu)成一篇完整的短文。

• 9．Charlie was a little boy of ten.He was such a good boy that everyone loved him a lot.Due to his father's job，his family shifted to a new city，where he was admitted into a new school.As Charlie was a good boy，most of his new classmates became his good friends soon.The teachers also praised Charlie for his intelligence and good behavior.
      But there was one boy in the class who did not like Charlie at all!His name was Bill and he was a very naughty boy，so no one liked him at all.He found that Charlie was a quiet boy，so he started making trouble for his new classmate.But Charlie still kept quiet and did not complain to the class teacher.When Charlie's parents learned about Bill，they wanted to go to school and complain about this naughty boy's behavior.But Charlie stopped them and said， "Mom，Dad，please do not worry.Everything will be all right."
      Days went by and the time came for the annual sports meeting at the school.Charlie was also good at sports and he was participating in a number of events.Bill was participating in the sack race（套袋跑），though he could not run very fast due to his fat body.When Bill saw that Charlie won first prize in the 100-meter race，he felt very jealous（妒忌的）and decided that he would not let it happen in the sack race.
      As planned，Bill tried to push Charlie while jumping on the track during the sack race.But he lost his balance and fell down!His leg was badly injured and he could not even stand up by himself.But as he was unpopular among his friends，no one turned up to help him!
  注意：
  1．續(xù)寫詞數(shù)應(yīng)為 150 左右；
  2．請(qǐng)按如下格式在相應(yīng)位置作答。
  Charlie noticed what had happened.______________________
    Charlie took Bill to the school doctor._________________________
  組卷：16引用：8難度：0.5

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