福建省厦门第一中学2023-2024学年度
高二年第一学期期中考
（试卷满分：150分，考试时间：120分钟）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
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。
1. What sport does the man do now
A. Tennis. B. Jogging C. Cycling.
2. How was the traffic problem caused
A. A motorist broke the traffic rules. B. The traffic lights don't work.
C. A lorry broke down.
3. What are the speakers mainly talking about
A. A picture. B. A Sofa. C. A room.
4. Why did the man move his computer
A. To get rid of the noise. B. To work overtime easily. C. To avoid the sunlight.
5. What will the speakers have for lunch
A. Tomato soup and sausages. B. Cheese sandwiches and tomato soup.
C. Sausages and cheese sandwiches
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 does the woman feel about the result of the match
A. Annoyed. B. Worried C. Happy.
7. Why is the man upset after the match
A. He's going to miss a big match. B. There isn't a replacement for him.
C. The goalkeeper in his team got injured.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What will the boy do to help the woman
A. Prepare some food. B. Clean the house. C. Make the bed.
9. What's the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Teacher and student. B. Mother and son. C. Sister and brother.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why is the woman grateful to the man
A. He got tickets in time. B. He treated her to a meal.
C. He recommended a good film to her.
11. What is the woman dissatisfied with about the film
A. The sound effects. B. The actors. C. The story.
12. What does the man think of the music
A. Noisy. B. Suitable. C. Unpleasant.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the woman
A. A company owner. B. A cook. C. A hostess.
14. What does Maya make more effort to do about shopping
A. Take her own bags. B. Avoid things in plastic containers. C. Go to little shops more often.
15. How did Maya's family react to her decision to live waste-free
A. They were worried that she would regret it.
B. They did not believe that she really meant it.
C. They did not think that she was likely to succeed.
16. In which way do Maya's cooking and eating habits change
A. She uses leftover food creatively. B. She cooks more often for her friends.
C. She develops her own cooking skills.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Which school is the university most famous for
A. Social sciences. B. Medicine. C. Law.
18. What is required for degree courses
A. At least two group discussion. B. Up to twenty seminars. C. A long essay.
19. What do we know about the university
A. All students are school-leavers. B. The university year is going to change.
C. Vacations are longer in spring than in summer.
20. Who is the talk most probably intended for
A. Students in senior high school. B. Graduates in universities. C. Postgraduates in universities.
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
Specialties
Welcome to LoveMama! We are a NY-based Malay, Vietnamese and Thai influenced Southeast Asian Restaurant and Caterer providing you tasty dinner in our Manhattan dining area. We also provide takeout and catering for individuals and groups or for private events.
History
Established in 2013. With humble beginnings as a food cart, the popularity of Love Mama's Malaysian street food boosted to opening a Manhattan restaurant in 2014.
Popular Items
The most commonly ordered items and dishes from this restaurant are as follows: Edamame Dumpling, Korean popcorn chicken, Lucky Noodle, Steak and Bread Pudding.
Reviews
I love this place. The food, customer service and prices were all great. We ordered the RotiCanai Planta, Rendang Nasilemak with chicken. Vegetable Salad Vietnamese Style and Uncle Plump's Dumplings The Rendano Nasi Lemak was the highlight of the meal.
My boyfriend forgot to tell them about allergies and told them halfway as they were preparing our order. They responded really well. In the end. we even got to have a nice conversation with the owner of the restaurant. Super great guy! We were pleasantly surprised with the low price at the end of the meal too. If you are in New York, you have to check out LoveMama. Best meal I have had in a while.
— Mary Brooklin
Stopped by here for Valentine's Day and we were not disappointed. We got 3 different dishes all from the Malaysian portion of the menu as none of us had ever had Malaysian food. The service was fast but not supper attentive, which we didn't mind at all. For $20 each with tip and feeling full and happy, this is a spot I'd definitely recommend!
—Peter Anderson
21. Where is the LoveMama restaurant
A. In Thailand. B. In Malaysia. C. In Vietnam. D. In America.
22. What is special about this restaurant
A. It can't provide takeout orders. B. It operates on a first-come-first-served basis.
C. It has customer-friendly business strategies. D. It is state-owned and runs around the clock.
23. How do Mary and Peter find this restaurant
A. Disappointing. B. Average. C. Time-honored. D. Cost-effective.
B
“It's a windy day in Laguna San Ignacio, and the waves seem to come from all directions.” said Sara Clemence in Bloomberg Businessweek. My children and I are riding on a 18-foot boat— small enough that we can reach down into the water if a gray whale swims up alongside. And then we see what we've come for: a heart-shaped shower of water and a dark mass rushing below it. As instructed, we splash (溅泼) the water strongly to signal the huge whale, which turns out to be a mother with her weeks-old baby. The baby soon swims beneath our boat, emerges to blow mist in my face, then “lies onto its side like a 2-ton puppy.” Leaning down, I touched its skin gently. “It feels electric. Also, a bit like petting a hard-boiled egg.”
San Ignacio is one of very few places where a person can pet a whale. The whales come each year to the coast of Baja California to give birth and to mate. If you're lucky, you can “shake hands with a leathery fin (鳍)” or even “plant a kiss on a cold, salty cheek.” I usually worry about such interactions, because wild creatures can become deeply stressed by human contact. But boat numbers are strictly limited in these protected waters. And any whale that approaches a boat does so on its own terms. Like that baby whale: “We see him a few times, and he seems to like being petted and splashed.”
So we are two species, connecting through touch, but also through eye contact: “More than once, after nosing around our boat, a young gray turns on its side so one dark, baseball-size eye is looking up at us.” Whalers used to call gray whales “devil fish” because these magnificent creatures turn violent when threatened— “or, say, when their babies are harmed.” That makes it feel even more of a blessing when, on our third day there, a large mama whale approaches the boat. “I'm splashing when I feel her nose press up into my hand.” Though she's “wiser and apparently more alert” than her child, “she still decides to trust us.”
24. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage
A. The writer was on a whale-touching trip.
B. The writer's boat went down with a huge wave.
C. The baby whale splashed water all over the writer.
D. The mother whale's skin felt as hard as a boiled egg.
25. By “does so on its own terms” (in paragraph 2) , the writer means whales in San Ignacio are ________.
A. mad with too many visitors B. ready for hands-on attention
C. restricted in swimming routes D. enclosed in their safety zones
26. Gray whales got the name of “devil fish” from their ________.
A. strange appearance B. inborn violence
C. fierceness in danger D. surprisingly enormous size
27. The writer's implied purpose in the passage is to ________.
A. popularize the knowledge of whales B. advocate harmony between man and nature
C. share an experience of the sea voyage D. show admiration for whales' motherhood
C
The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2, 000 years ago on a misguided experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king could discover the true, unlearned language of human beings.
Scientists now know that human language requires social learning and interaction with other people, a property shared with multiple animal languages. But why should humans and other animals need to learn a language instead of being born with this knowledge
Given that the ways honeybees communicate are quite complex, we decided to study how they learn to communicate to answer this language question.
Bees possess one of the most complicated examples of nonhuman communication. They can tell each other where to find resources such as food, water, or nest sites with a physical “waggle (摇摆) dance”, by circling around in a figure eight pattern centered around a waggle run. This dance conveys the direction, distance and quality of a resource to the bee's nestmates.
Bees begin to dance only as they get older. Could they be learning from practiced teachers
We thus created isolated experimental colonies of bees (蜂群) that could not observe other waggle dances before they themselves danced. Like the ancient experiment described by Herodotus, these bees could not observe the dance language because they were all the same age and had no older, experienced bees to follow. In contrast, our control colonies contained bees of all ages, so younger bees could follow the older, experienced dancers.
We recorded the first dances of the bees. The bees that could not follow the dances of experienced bees produced dances with significantly more directional, distance and disorder errors than the dances" of control bees.
We then tested the same bees later, when they were experienced dancers. Bees who had lacked teachers now produced significantly fewer errors, possibly because they had more practice or had learned by eventually following other dancers. The dances of the control bees remained just as good as their first dances.
Complex communication is often difficult to produce even when individuals are born with some knowledge of the correct signals. Bees are born with some knowledge of how to dance, but they have to learn how to dance even better by following experienced bees.
28. Why does the author say the experiment on the two children is a misguided experiment
A. Language learning is a social activity.
B. Language learning has changed greatly.
C. Children are born with human speech.
D. Children develop differently in language.
29. What does the underlined word “isolated” in paragraph 6 indicate
A. Old bees could not produce waggle dances.
B. Old bees could not observe waggle dances.
C. Young bees were separated from older ones.
D. Young bees could follow experienced bees.
30. What do we know about the bees whose dances remained as good as their first dances
A. They had little practice in waggle dances.
B. They had learned waggle dances without teachers.
C. They were experienced in teaching waggle dances.
D. They had learned waggle dances before their first dances.
31. What does the last paragraph serve as
A. A guide to complex communication.
B. An answer to why language should be learned.
C. An example of nonhuman communication
D. A proof that bees are born with some knowledge.
D
A new service gives new life to the past by using artificial intelligence to change still images into moving videos.
Called Deep Nostalgia, the service creates animations (动画) by using deep learning to analyze a single facial photo. Then, the system animates the facial image through a “driver”— a pre-determined sequence (次序) of movements and gestures. The process is completely automated.
Launched by the Israeli genealogy company My Heritage, some of Deep Nostalgia's early results are impressive. But that's not to say the animations are perfect. There's still an uncanny air to the images, with some of the facial movements appearing slightly unnatural. What's more, Deep Nostalgia is only able to create deepfakes of one person's face from the neck up, so you couldn't use it to animate group photos, or photos of people doing any sort of physical activity.
But for a free deep-fake service, Deep Nostalgia is pretty impressive, especially considering you can use it to create deepfakes of any face, human or not. So, is creating deepfakes of long-dead people a bit frightening Some people seem to think so. “Some people love the feature with Deep Nostalgia and consider it magical while others think it is scary and dislike it,” My Heritage wrote on its website. “We invite you to create movies using this feature and share them on social media to see what your friends and relatives think. This feature is intended for nostalgic use, that is, to give life back to beloved ancestors.”
Deep Nostalgia isn't the first project to create deepfakes from single images. In 2019, researchers working at the Samsung AI Center in Moscow published a paper describing how machine-learning techniques can produce deepfakes after “looking” at only one or a few images.
While the results from the Samsung researchers were impressive, the Deep Nostalgia project shows how deepfake technology is advancing at a rapid pace. As these tools have become increasingly popular, media experts have raised concerns about how bad actors might use deepfakes and “cheap fakes” to trick the public. My Heritage seemed to sense Deep Nostalgia's potential or abuse, writing: “Please use this feature on your own historical photos and not on photos of living people without their agreement.”
32. What can we infer from the passage
A. Deep Nostalgia enhances the images to make the animations perfectly natural.
B. Deep Nostalgia is able to create deepfakes of people's physical activity.
C. People hold different opinions about Deep Nostalgia.
D. The Samsung Al Center in Moscow produced deepfakes after Deep Nostalgia.
33. Which of the following can be used to replace the underlined word in Paragraph 3
A. Strange. B. Artificial. C. Perfect. D. Impressive.
34. What attitude does My Heritage hold towards the future use of deepfakes
A. Optimistic. B. Alarmed. C. Ambiguous. D. Pessimistic.
35. What could be the best title for the passage
A. Deepfake technology raises concern among experts.
B. Deepfake technology advances at a fast pace.
C. Deep Nostalgia goes viral on social media.
D. Deep Nostalgia brings old photos to life
第二节（共5小题；每小题2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。
Joseph Conrad, a famous English novelist, said that his goal as a writer was “to make you hear, to make you feel, and above all, to make you see. That, and no more, is everything.” 36 Often it leaves a single sharp impression to be turned over and over in the mind. After finishing the story, the reader should have something to think about: the humor of life, its ironies, or the unpredictability of human behavior.
37 The first and most obvious level is conveyed through the plot. Plot refers to the sequence of events, to the actions of the characters and the situations in which they are involved. To explain the plot, then, is to tell what happened in the story and to whom. In some short stories, plot is the dominating element. In other short stories, plot plays a very minor role.
In Hemingway's story, The Old Man and the Sea, however, we must approach the content on another level. 38 To understand and appreciate the story, the reader must be able to identify its general topic or theme. The next step is to identify the device by which the author comments on this theme. 39
Readers cannot appreciate a short story fully unless they react not only to what has been said but also to how it has been said. 40 Style grows out of the writer's own personality and can be seen in the choice of words and phrases, the arrangement of sentences, the rhythm and tone. Structure refers to the architecture of the story, the way in which the details are selected and arranged to produce the desired effect.
A. They must look for style and structure.
B. In complex stories, careful readers may not always agree with the author.
C. The impact on the reader comes from the sudden and unexpected response.
D. A good short story tries to give the reader a sense of the actual experience.
E. Finally, the reader should be able to explain the insights which the author has given into the theme.
F. The impact of the story comes from the insight it gives us into the needs and desires of youth and old age.
G. In order to read a short story with full understanding, the reader must approach the content on two levels.
第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共1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。
People on a college campus were more likely to give money to the March of Dimes if they were asked for a donation by a disabled woman in a wheelchair than if asked by a nondisabled woman. In another 41 , subway riders in New York saw a man carrying a stick stumble and fall to the floor. Sometimes the victim had a large red birthmark on his 42 ; sometimes he did not. In this situation, the victim was more likely to 43 aid if his face was spotless than if he had an unattractive birthmark. In 44 these and other research findings, two 45 themes are found: we are more willing to help people we like for some reason and people we think 46 assistance.
In some situations, those who are physically attractive are more likely to receive aid. 47 , in a field study researchers placed a completed application to graduate school in a telephone box at the airport. The application was ready to be 48 , but had apparently been “lost”. The photo attached to the application was sometimes that of a very 49 person and sometimes that of a less attractive person. The measure of helping was whether the individual who found the envelope actually mailed it or not. Results showed that people were more likely to 50 the application if the person in the photo was physically attractive.
The degree of 51 between the potential helper and the person in need is also important. For example, people are more likely to help a stranger who is from the same country rather than a foreigner. In one study, shoppers on a busy street in Scotland were more likely to help a person wearing a (n) 52 T-shirt than a person wearing a T-shirt printed with offensive words.
Whether a person receives help depends in part on the “worth” of the case. For example, shoppers in a supermarket were more likely to give someone 53 to buy milk rather than to buy cookies, probably because milk is thought more essential for 54 than cookies. Passengers on a New York subway were more likely to help a man who fell to the ground if he appeared to be 55 rather than drunk.
41. A. way B. study C. word D. college
42. A. face B. arm C. hand D. back
43. A. refuse B. beg C. receive D. lose
44. A. challenging B. recording C. publishing D. understanding
45. A. important B. possible C. amusing D. missing
46. A. seek B. obtain C. deserve D. accept
47. A. At first B. For example C. In addition D. Above all
48. A. mailed B. printed C. rewritten D. signed
49. A. talented B. hard-working C. helpful D. good-looking
50. A. throw away B. send in C. fill out D. turn down
51. A. cooperation B. friendship C. similarity D. contact
52. A. plain B. expensive C. cheap D. strange
53. A. money B. instructions C. time D. chances
54. A. shoppers B. health C. children D. research
55. A. talkative B. handsome C. sick D. calm
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。
During a discussion with young Chinese people in 2013, President Xi Jinping praised 56 as “the most energetic and creative group of our society” 57 said that they should “stand at the frontline of innovation and creation”. To answer his call, Chinese scientists in their 30s have played a key role in some of the country's greatest scientific and 58 (technology) projects, China Daily reported.
For example, 59 average age of the team that created the Beidou Satellite Navigation System is 37. For China's FAST, the world's largest radio telescope, its engineering and operation team has an average age of 39, 60 its on-site crew at an average age of 30, according to People's Daily.
The sharp rise in young scientists is 61 (part) a result of improving research environments. In 2019, China's spending on research and development of basic sciences reached 2. 17 trillion yuan, 62 (account) for 2. 19 percent of its GDP. “It 63 (strengthen) the country's innovation capacity greatly so far.” China Daily reported.
Experts say that scientific researchers usually make their 64 (big) achievements between the ages of 25 and 45, with their productivity peaking around 37.
“Facing a problem is the least of my worries, because 65 there is a problem, there is an opportunity to do further research,” said Yao Rui, 37, a researcher at FAST project.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
假设你是中学生李华，在英国学习，担任学校中国语言与文化社社长。近期，校学生会发布了举办“国际文化节”的通知，每个社团可以申请一个摊位并安排相应的文化活动。请写一封邮件申请一个摊位。内容包括：
l. 你的摊位名称：中国茶艺展Chinese Tea Art Show；2. 具体活动安排。
参考词汇：摊位booth
注意：
1. 词数80左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Student Union,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sincerely yours,
Li Hua
第二节（满分25分）
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
“Watch out! You nearly broadsided that car!” My father yelled at me. “Can't you do anything right ” Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the seat beside me. A lump rose in my throat as I averted my eyes. I wasn't prepared for another quarrel. “I saw the car, Dad. Please don't yell at me when I'm driving.” My voice was measured and steady, sounding far calmer than I really felt. Dad glared at me, and then turned away and settled back.
That night I went outside to collect my thoughts. What could I do about him Dad had been a lumberjack (伐木工人) in Washington and Oregon. He had enjoyed being outdoors using his strength against the forces of nature. The first time he couldn't lift a heavy log, he joked about it; but later that same day I saw him outside alone, struggling to lift it. He became angry whenever anyone teased him about his advancing age, or when he couldn't do something he had done as a younger man.
Four days after his sixty-seventh birthday, he had a heart attack. An ambulance sped him to the hospital. At the hospital, Dad was rushed into an operating room. He was lucky; he survived. But something inside Dad died. His enthusiasm for life was gone. He refused to follow the doctor's orders. Suggestions and offers of help were turned down with bad words. The number of visitors thinned, and then finally stopped altogether. Dad was left alone.
My husband, Dick, and I asked Dad to come and live with us on our small farm. We hoped the fresh air and rustic atmosphere would help him adjust. Within a week after he moved in, I regretted the invitation. It seemed that nothing was satisfactory. He criticized everything I did. I became upset. Soon I was taking my anger out on Dick. We began to argue. Luckily, Dick had a friend who was a mental health expert. After he listened to our story, he recommended that we should find a dog to accompany Dad. I thought maybe I should have a try.
注意：
1所续写短文的同数应为150左右；
2请按如下格式在答题卡上的相应位置作答。
I drove to the animal shelter and was led to the kennels (狗舍) by a keeper. ______________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
“Dad! Look what I got for you, Dad!” I said excitedly.
